Journal of Leadership Education: Volume 13 Issue 4 , Open Access

Foreword

Proceedings of the 2014 International Followership Symposium Introductory Remarks

Proceedings of the 2014 International Followership Symposium Preface

Followership Research: Looking Back and Looking Forward

This paper briefly reviews the historical limitations of research on leadership in an effort to avoid these same pitfalls in the study of followers and followership. In…

Followership: Exercising Discretion

The U.S. Army has been fighting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for over 10 years and in the process produced a new military doctrine called mission command. Mission command…

Why “Good” Followers Go “Bad”: The Power of Moral Disengagement

Moral disengagement answers the question of why “good” followers (those with high personal standards) go “bad” (engage in unethical and illegal activities). In moral…

Constructions of Following from a Relational Perspective: A Follower-Focused Study

The followership field remains overshadowed by the leadership field, with traditional assumptions attached to the follower concept further undervaluing the importance of…

Collaboration Theory

Theories of collaboration exist at the interfirm and intergroup level, but not the intragroup or team level. Team interactions are often framed in terms of leadership and…

Mission-Driven Followership and Civic Engagement: A Different Sustainable Energy

The concept of civic engagement, defined independently of engagement in political, social, or vocational organizations connects the parallel concept of followership to civic…

The Uprising of POW/MIA Wives: How Determined Women Forced America, Hanoi, and the World to Change

In the fall of 1966, a small and informal group of wives whose husbands were classified as Prisoner of War (POW) or Missing in Action (MIA) formed a small and informal group. By…

Followership in Russia: Understanding Traditions and Exploring Meaning of Current Reality

This paper uses a western theoretical foundation of followership as a framework for a limited, empirically-derived perspective of Russian followers. The author argues for the…

Followership among UK Secondary School Teachers

This paper reports the preliminary findings of an exploratory study which investigates the followership of longstanding, classroom-based school teachers working in the UK…

Comparison of Rwandan and American Followership Styles

Leadership research is plentiful and multifaceted yet followership, an essential component in leadership, attracts little research attention. This research paper measures…

Followership at the FDIC: A Case Study

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), an independent agency of the U.S. Federal government, has been instructing employees in the tenants of followership since 2009…

Promoting Creative Capacity in Followership Education

With increasing acceptance of followership as a counterpart of leadership, the study of followership within graduate-level leadership and business curricula should be equally…

Simultaneously Leaders and Followers: A Middle Manager’s Implicit and Explicit Challenge

Scholars frequently address the dyadic relationships between leaders and followers without observing the simultaneity of leadership and followership roles, particularly evident in…