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“She’s the Anti-Midas, Everything Turns to Crap”: Evocative Metaphors Managers and Employees Use to Describe Managerial Attempts at Enacting Leadership

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Journal of Business Communication

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Abstract

International Journal of Business Communication, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 287-311, April 2026.
Although meta-analyses provide clear evidence of which leader behaviors result in outcomes such as employee performance, commitment, and intent to leave, qualitative approaches are necessary to understand how managers perceive and enact their roles in ...