Self-other agreement in empowering leadership: Relationships with leader effectiveness and subordinates' job satisfaction and turnover intention

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 784-800

  Amundsen, Stein ^a,b   Martinsen, Oyvind L ^c  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Empowering leadership; Job satisfaction; Leader effectiveness; Self other agreement; Turnover intention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902359096     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.04.007     Document Type: Article

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