What conditions will it take for research on followership to become as popular as research on leadership? Consider global, cultural, or societal conditions.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Students may acknowledge that followership research is in its infancy and, unlike leadership research, lacks formal theories based on empirical data. However, interest in followership is growing. Students may discuss various changes occurring in society that are putting followership in a brighter spotlight. Those changes include the evolution of organizational hierarchies into flatter dimensions where positional, authoritative leadership is falling out of fashion and leadership is shared. That is, with the rise in our knowledge that ‘good’ leadership is relational (with contemporary follower-focused frameworks such as Transformational, Servant, Authentic, and Adaptive leadership), it is more likely that the other side of the leadership equation--followership--is next to be studied. Another factor is globalization and the mixture of various cultures inside organizations, especially cultures with a collective ‘we’ orientation that value the good of the group and those cultures that may be less leader-centric. Finally, students may discuss the rise in our awareness of toxic leaders in various domains around the globe and how fields such as politics, business, athletic administration, and others will be examining the phenomenon of people following destructive leaders and how followers can influence change.
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What will be an ideal response?
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