Followership and Student Leadership: Exploring the Relationship
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The existence of followership in a postindustrial paradigm of leadership is highly contested and seldom taught through leadership programs and courses. This study was conducted to determine if a relationship exists between students’ leadership attitudes and beliefs, their leadership identity, and their perspective on followers. The study found that that there is a significant relationship between students’ negative perception of followers and an industrial paradigm of leadership and students’ positive perception of followers and a postindustrial paradigm of leadership. Implications for teaching followership to students and a suggested curriculum are provided.
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