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Followership. Followership are the actions of someone in a subordinate role. It may also be considered as particular services that can help the leader, a role within a hierarchical organization, a social construct that is integral to the leadership process, or the behaviors engaged in while interacting with leaders in an effort to meet ...
followers and leaders, understanding nuances in the leadership-followership dynamic provides opportunities for improving collaboration and thus school climate. In her book Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders, Barbara Kellerman (2008) defines followership, what it means to be a follower, and identifies
Followership: The Essence of Leadership. Lee, Chris. Training, v28 n1 p27-35 Jan 1991. Organizations that have effective leaders tend to have effective followers. Effective followers are partners in creating a vision, take responsibility for getting their job done, take the initiative to fix problems or improve processes, and question leaders.
But followership seems to be leadership's forgotten companion, ignored, an embarrassment. It is true that dissent is an important element of followership and leadership. But the ethics of followership can only be understood if the 'direction of support' is recognised (leaders care for the led) and accepted by nominal leaders and nominal followers.
New Directions for Student Leadership, n167 p15-22 Fall 2020. Followership is associated with many negative characteristics such as being passive, having a lower status, possessing less intelligence, receiving lower pay, order-taking, providing less value, or avoiding risk. And yet, leadership, followership, and context combine to form a ...
tinuum of followership, moving from being an acquiescent follower through to being a co- constructor of leadership. This paper focuses on the complex and shifting interactions, roles, and relationships between followers and leaders in teaching in higher education. First, we provide an outline of the literature that supports our findings and ...
“Followership” because of primary works by Kelley’s (1988) and Chaleff’s (1995) publications; clearly focusing upon followership as being an integral or utmost part of an effective leadership and their theories proposed styles, attitude, behaviours and characteristics of followers and the interlinkage of leader follower relation
The dynamic between leadership and followership is important, yet historically in education, only leadership has seen emphasis and examination. Followership in itself is not a new concept because virtually every individual spends more time in the role of follower than leader and there have been both leaders and followers throughout the course of history.