Moral leadership: A short primer on competing perspectives

Managerial Ethics: Managing the Psychology of Morality

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 21-52

  Cropanzano, Russell ^a   Walumbwa, Fred O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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