Workplace Intimacy in Leader-Follower Relationships

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kark, Ronit ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Communal exchange; Instrumental exchange; Post heroic leadership; Relational leadership; Relational self concept; Workplace intimacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925012896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734610.013.0032     Document Type: Chapter

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