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Uncovering a Relationship between Leadership Behaviour and Employees’ Workaholism: A Systematic Review

Management of Organizations: Systematic Research

Volume 84 (2020): Issue 1 (December 2020)

By: Modesta Morkevičiūtė and Auksė Endriulaitienė

Open Access

|Jan 2021

Abstract

Some of the authors proposed that organisational factors play an important role in the context of employees’ workaholism. Therefore, the principal purpose of the paper is to systematically review the scientific literature on the relationship between leadership behaviours and employees’ workaholism.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mosr-2020-0010 | Journal eISSN: 2335-8750 | Journal ISSN: 1392-1142

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Language: English

Page range: 17 - 29

Submitted on: Oct 5, 2020

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Accepted on: Dec 10, 2020

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Published on: Jan 29, 2021

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