Empirical Investigations Of Followership Theory: How Followers Impact Leaders And Leadership

Abstract

As work has gone remote and managers and subordinates are being forced to engage more at a distance, demands are being placed on leaders and followers to work together in different ways to get things done. Much of this calls for broader views of leadership that are flatter, less hierarchical and involve more follower autonomy. These new realities align well with emerging research on followership theory. According to followership theory, followers are not passive recipients of a leader’s influence but instead active and engaged partners in the co-production of leadership and achievement of work unit outcomes. In this symposium we present much-needed empirical findings on the study of followership theory. The findings have critically important implications for integrating followership in leadership theory, as well as the ways we conceptualize, study, teach, and develop leadership and followership in organizations. The Benefits and Costs of Daily Co-Production of Leadership Presenter: Lei Huang; Auburn U. Presenter: Mary Uhl-Bien; Texas Christian U. Followership at a Distance: Examining Followers’ Performance, and Well-Being during Covid-19 Presenter: Melissa Carsten; Winthrop U. Presenter: Ashita Goswami; Salem State U. Presenter: Agnieszka Karolina Shepard; Mercer U. Presenter: Lilah Donnelly; Mercer U. Can Belief in Science Alter the Relationship between Charisma and Safety Behaviors during COVID-19? Presenter: Chris Giebe; U. of Mainz & U. Presenter: Ashita Goswami; Salem State U. Presenter: Thomas Rigotti; Johannes Gutenberg-U. Mainz Presenter: Prakash K. Nair; MYRA School of Business Examining Ethical ILT-Supervisor Alignment and Job-related Outcomes with Moderated Mediation Presenter: Patrick Coyle; La Salle U. Presenter: Benjamin Biermeier-Hanson; Radford U. Presenter: Caroline Hastings; La Salle U. Presenter: Rebecca Piergallini; La Salle U.