Emotional intelligent leadership: Findings from a study of public library branch managers in Northern Ireland

Library Management

Volumn 34, Issue 6-7, 2013, Pages 462-485

  McKeown, Anthony ^a   Bates, Jessica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branch managers; Emotional intelligent leadership; Leadership; Libraries NI; Northern Ireland; Public libraries; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883689687     PISSN: 01435124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/LM-10-2012-0072     Document Type: Article

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