Theory and evidence across several organisational literatures identify a complex and ill defined set of factors which relate to support in managerial work teams. This article delineates a pattern of relationships among a set of theoretically relevant and contiguous variables including job...

The contemporary leadership theories of Fiedler (LPC Contingency Theory), House (Path Goal, Vroom and Yetton (Decision Making) and Graen (Vertical Dyad Linkage) are commonly viewed as divergent, if not competing. The result is a fragmented leadership literature which contains little theoretical...