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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"followership"”.
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Developing and Validating a Measure of Transformational Followership
Leadership and followership are inherently interdependent, yet research has primarily focused on the unilateral influence of leaders. To advance a more balanced perspective and highlight how followers can positively contribute to the leadership process, I conceptualized and validated a measure of …
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Follow the Leader: A Followership Perspective in Restaurants
… research topic in the hospitality industry, followership has a limited amount of research contributing to the body of knowledge. Followers are a key aspect of the leadership equation; therefore, it is important to understand their role in the industry. The purpose of this study is to explore …
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Contextual Constraints: An Examination of Implicit Followership Theories
… framework to understand the process by which followership perceptions are altered by contextual factors. Organizational culture, change in immediate leader and follower prototypes were measured in an applied setting across time to assess the dynamism of the cognitive networks of implicit …
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The relationship between authentic leadership, psychological capital, followership and work engagement
… leadership, psychological capital and exemplary followership behaviour as antecedents of work engagement of employees. A quantitative, cross-sectional survey design was utilised, using a composite electronic questionnaire. Data was gathered by using a purposive sample of managers in a national …
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Followership preferences for gender-based leadership behavioral characteristics in the virtual environment
The purpose of this study was to examine followership preferences for gender-based leadership behavioral characteristics in the virtual environment. A thorough literature review encompassing leadership, followership, and the virtual environment, found no clear answer to either of the research …
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Examining Followership Styles and Job Satisfaction in Public, Midwestern K-12 Teachers
While prior research has attempted to explore followership styles and how they connect to job satisfaction in employees, no other study could be found which specifically focused on public, K-12 teachers in the United States. The main purpose of this nonexperimental, quantitative study was to …
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First Fellowship Then Followership: Training for a New Generation of Teacher Leaders
The teachers' lounge was once the only oasis of camaraderie among teachers engaged in the rigors of public education. Today, fellowship among teachers looks quite different and is no longer relegated to the teachers' lounge. Indeed, in a successful school it is pervasive, and so are the teachers …
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Leadership and followership practices in learning organisations : a case study of Abu Dhabi education council
This thesis studies the relationship between practices in learning organisation and social practices at the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC). The research domain was broken down into six research (questions), which affect the development of a learning organisation at ADEC. 1) What is the impact …
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An Exploration of Proactive Followership in the Co-Creation of Leadership Process: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Followership research is scarce across the literature today, and more so from followers' voices. In terms of typologies, one known study from the follower perspective outlines three types of behaviors: passive, active, and proactive. Research shows proactive followership behaviors influence …
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The Impact of Servant Leadership and Christ-Centered Followership On the Problem of Police Brutality Against Minorities
… leadership model predicated on Christ-centered followership with a biblically based shepherding framework enhanced by servant leadership can shape individual officers and the police subculture. This new model can uphold a Christian deontological ethic—an ethic of duty grounded in peacekeeping …
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Positive Psychology and Being a Good Teammate: How Justice Character Strengths lead to Authentic, Courageous, and Exemplary Followership, Positive Institutions, Flourishing, and Heroic Upstanders for Positive Citizenship and Stewardship for the Common Good
… political studies are increasingly focusing on followership. This paper proposes a conceptualization of followership under the Justice Virtue in the Character Strengths (Peterson & Seligman, 2004) classification, using this to bridge the divide between followership in organizational and societal …
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A Study of the Relationship Between Followership Modalities and Leadership Styles Among Educators at Selected High Schools in Jackson, Mississippi
… explore the nature of the relationship between followership modalities and leadership styles. High-school teachers and principals in the Jackson Public School District in Jackson, Mississippi, participated in the study.</p> <p><em>Method</em>. Methodological triangulation that combined …
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FOLLOWING THE LEADER OR LEADING THE FOLLOWER? THE EFFECTS OF MISSION-DRIVEN VS. LEADER-DRIVEN COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
… is the separate and distinct concept of followership. Previously, followers were discussed more in relation to the leader, as if leaders were entirely responsible for the actions of followers, and the follower role was considered secondary to the success of the leader and the project. …
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A Mixed Methods Study of Leader-Follower Dynamics in Student Project Teams: Toward Advancing Career Readiness
… transformational leadership and effective followership behaviors as predictors of teamwork quality and team effectiveness in the study. This study applies an explanatory sequential mixed methods design to examine: (a) whether transformational team leadership is positively related to team …
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Encouraging leaders to be followers too : strengthening young women's leadership in a global, intergenerational, women's organisation
… realise a practice of emancipatory and critical followership that can influence who is recognised as a leader in their groups. Rather than considering youth as a time of preparation for a future practice of leadership, this thesis argues there is a need to recognise young people, and particularly …
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The effects of authentic leadership and a positive organisational context
… context leads to increased authentic followership, which in turn influences positive follower outcomes, and finally leads to sustainable and veritable organisational performance. A research contextual framework, based on Gardner et al.’s (2005) model, is developed with one significant …
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Employees experience of authentic leadership: a UK prespective
… practiced at workplace that led to authentic followership of employees. A purposeful sample of 14 participants from UK retail industry were collected. The participants in their in-depth interviews recalled their memories of their experience with Authentic leaders and how this experience had an …
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Rating Leadership Potential From Above: The Effects of Implicit Theories on Supervisors' Ratings of Leadership Potential
… that supervisors will tend to use implicit followership theories (IFTs) in addition to implicit leadership theories (ILTs) to evaluate the leadership potential of their subordinates. Additionally, it was proposed that subordinates’ traits influence their perceived match to IFTs and ILTs. …
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The Impact of Visual Representations of Leadership in Tribal Dominated Societies: A critical qualitative study of aesthetic leadership in the United Arab Emirates
… aesthetic and mythical to consider the role of followership in the consumption of leadership-themed visual artworks and communication, and the growing global role and influence of social media in shaping leader-follower relations.
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Leadership development to support quality improvement
… useful insight into the role of leadership and followership in quality improvement, that may be of use to others when implementing health and other related development programmes in low and middle-income countries. Areas for future research are identified. Keywords: Quality improvement, Health …
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