Paternalistic leadership and employee voice: Does information sharing matter?

Human Relations

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 667-693

  Chan, Simon C H ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

employee voice; information sharing; paternalistic leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901227993     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726713503022     Document Type: Article

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