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Question: Our objective is to analyze followership and its implications with organizational success.
In relation to the focus and study of leadership, followership is a relatively new research area. Two of the main names associated with the study of followership are Robert E. Kelly (The Power of Followership, Doubleday, 1992) and Ira Chaleff (The Courageous Follower, Berret-Koehler, 2003). Kelley's model describes followers on two continuums, their relative strength of independent/critical thinking versus active engagement. Scoring these two continuums provides 5 different result areas (alienated followers, passive followers, pragmatist followers, conformist followers, and exemplary followers). According to Kelley, "Followers determine not only if someone will be accepted as a leader but also if that leader will be effective" (p. 13 - See below link).
We had to read Kelley, R. E. (1988). In Praise of Followers. Harvard Business Review, 66(6), 142-148.
We had to watch Followership and Leadership. Retrieved here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDNlrY3Zo28
After completing the readings and watching the video, we had to read the Followership Questionnare (Kelley, 1992).
Kelley's followership Questionnaire contains 20 questions answered on a (0 - 6) point Likert scale anchored by 'Rarely' and 'Almost Always'.
As a response, how might you think of a typical situation in which you were a follower, and answer the questions as accurately as possible (not how you wish you were) according to Kelley's questionaire?
How might you describe your followership situation, your mapped results, the outcomes of that situation, and any other relevant followership information?