Developing personal responsibility and leadership traits in all your employees: part 1 – shaping and harmonizing the highperformance drivers

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 764-774

  Smith, Peter A c ^a   Sharma, Meenakshi ^b  

^a Leadership Alliance Inc   (Canada)

^b Sharma Consulting   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employees; Leadership; Organizational decision making; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986127775     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210441018     Document Type: Article

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