How groups of individuals achieve coordination and collective action is an important topic in the natural sciences, but until recently the role of leadership in this process has been largely overlooked. In contrast, leadership is arguably one of the most important themes in the social sciences, permeating all aspects of human social affairs: the election of Barack Obama, the war in Iraq, and th...

Handling Editor: Ronald Riggio Authentic leadership theory posits that the authenticity of leaders and followers is influenced by their personal histories. Attachment theory states that individuals have internal working models that are influenced by both early developmental experiences and relationships later in life. These models guide how people interact with close others and tend toward thre...

followership is a developing paradigm in organizational behavior which focusesmainly on followers. the goal of this study is to explore follower’s implicitfollowership theories (ifts) which entail an analysis of follower’s views andperception about followership. for this purpose, based on a phenomenologicalapproach, semi-structured interviews with employees of large public and privateorganizati...

Purpose: This descriptive survey-based study aimed to examine the degree of relational bonds, followership, occupational stress, and organizational commitment in nurses identify factors influencing commitment.Methods: The research was conducted among 181 who had more than 1 year experience at a general hospital with 700 beds Seoul. Relational were measured using structured questionnaire. Data c...

This article investigates followers’ influence on the leadership process in congregations. A working hypothesis is that church, people without formal roles have considerable power. The main question this asks: What are characteristics of follower local congregations? a theoretical discussion problem guided by three questions: How followers influencing leadership? church? characterizes perspecti...

Purpose Over time, the role of followers within leadership discourse has gained greater status, leading to being acknowledged as significant actors in process. This led development follower-centric studies, well more emergent research area followership, with followership having specific intention find out about from perspective followers. In this paper, authors provide a review role-based appro...

To investigate the influence of E-Leadership on organizational innovation performance (OIP), data from previous studies were analyzed, and a theoretical model containing E-Leadership, employee behavior (EIB), followership, OIP was constructed using frameworks Supervisor's Organizational Embodiment (SOE) theory, social learning "social man" hypothesis. Subsequently, to interrelationships OIP, 37...