...Rachael Thompson; Stephanie Lynn Gresh; Marc Hurwitz And finally, the issue provides insights into contemporary followership and leadership training programmes in practice to inspire the creation of new followership development initiatives. In his paper, Read shares reflections upon...

... and discourse of the important role “exemplary followers” have for organizations. Extant followership constructs will be linked to key HR processes to illustrate how organizations can select, develop and retain “exemplary followership” to safeguard organizational sustainability. Design/methodology/approach...

... dynamics. This paper aims to examine the follower-centric space of American collegiate athletics to understand how coaches train and develop followership. Design/methodology/approach Contemporary organization psychology and leadership/followership theories are highlighted in partnership with modern...

...Susan Grant; Susan Willsie; Garima Gupta Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the significance of the role of followership by raising self-awareness of those in organisational hierarchies through the followership intelligence activity. As practitioners, we intentionally spotlight...

...John Basil Read III Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the benefits of incorporating the tenants of followership into leadership curriculums as a means of increasing employee engagement in the organization’s mission. Design/methodology/approach Five years ago, the author reported...

...Tim O. Peterson; Claudette M. Peterson Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent there is a predictive relationship between organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) and followership behaviors within medical organizations in the USA. This is the second part of a two-part...

...Tim O. Peterson; Claudette M. Peterson; Brian W. Rook Purpose The overall purpose of this paper is to determine to what extent organizational citizenship behaviors predict followership behaviors within medical organizations in the USA. This is the first part of a two-part article. Part 1...

...Giambattista Bufalino Purpose The leadership industry has experienced an unprecedented growth in popularity, and business management effectiveness has become synonymous with leaders’ roles. However, in this egalitarian twenty-first century little mention has been made of followership due to its...

...Tony Manning; Bob Robertson Purpose The first part of this paper pointed out that theory and research on followership is less extensive and less well known than that on leadership. It then described a three factor model of leadership and suggested it could be applied to and was consistent...

... and suggested it could be applied to followership. In the second part of the paper, the authors present empirical evidence on the three factor model of leadership and its application to the full range of team roles, including follower, co-worker and leader roles. In the third part of the paper the authors...

...Tony Manning; Bob Robertson Purpose – While there is an extensive body of theory and research on leadership, less attention has been paid to other work roles, including follower roles. The purpose of this paper is to explain and justify a three factor model of followership as a basis...