Courage in Organizations: An Integrative Review of the "Difficult Virtue"

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Worline, Monica C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformity; Courage; Emotion; Leadership; Prosocial behavior; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924964559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734610.013.0023     Document Type: Chapter

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