Authentic Leadership, Authentic Followership, Basic Need Satisfaction, and Work Role Performance: A Cross-Level Study

Journal of Management

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1677-1697

  Leroy, Hannes ^a,d   Anseel, Frederik ^b   Gardner, William L ^c   Sels, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

authentic followership; authentic leadership; basic need satisfaction; self determination theory; work role performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938351764     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206312457822     Document Type: Article

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