Linking ethical leadership to employee creativity: Knowledge sharing and self-efficacy as mediators

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1409-1420

  Ma, Yueru ^a   Cheng, Weibo ^a   Ribbens, Barbara A ^b   Zhou, Juanmei ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee creativity; Ethical leadership; Knowledge sharing; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886890424     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2013.41.9.1409     Document Type: Article

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