Transformational leadership, relationship quality, and employee performance during continuous incremental organizational change

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 942-958

  Carter, Min Z ^a   Armenakis, Achilles A ^b   Feild, Hubert S ^b   Mossholder, Kevin W ^b  

^a TROY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change frequency; Organizational change; Organizational citizenship behavior; Relationship quality; Task performance; Transformational leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884717903     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.1824     Document Type: Article

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