Coping with destructive leadership: Putting forward an integrated theoretical framework for the interaction process between leaders and followers

Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology

Volumn 222, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 203-213

  May, Daniel ^a   Wesche, Jenny S ^a   Heinitz, Kathrin ^a   Kerschreiter, Rudolf ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coping; Destructive leadership; Followership; Leader follower interaction process; Negative leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915791055     PISSN: 21908370     EISSN: 21512604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000187     Document Type: Article

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