Can We Lead and Follow case study
Can We Lead and Follow
Summary
This paper is about the relationship between leader and follower. Kelley (1991) pointed out that “Without followers, leadership is meaningless and leaders don’t exist.” Kelley thought that leaders must have followers, so we could called them “leaders”. If they do not have followers, they are not leaders. In exhibit1: the writer showed us an “all leader organization” model. There are no research supporting it. Leadership is not just focus on leader only, leadership considers both leaders and followers. In leadership research, Leadership is an important concern in the globally competitive world of business. The neo-charismatic model of leadership combines charismatic. Transactional, and transformational, it will shows the followers as an important role in the process called leadership. The neo-charismatic leadership has 10 visionary behaviors: capable management, reward equity, communication leadership, credible leadership, caring leadership, creative leadership, confident leadership, follower-centered leadership, visionary leadership, and principled leadership. The role of followers in the leadership process is a proactive state. Followers support the leaders, and they like managers in the organization. The Exhibit2 shows the traditional view of followers. In the traditional view of followers, the followers will follow the leader in every condition, they are unconditional to do everything for leaders, and it is not viable in global market. Chaleff(2003) thought the five behaviors of courageous followers are courage to assume responsibility, courage to serve, courage to challenge, courage to participate in transformation, and courage to leave. Leaders and followers are the important to develop the leadership process, follower development and follower performance are key aspects of the leadership process. The recommendation of how to use in practice is that engineering organizations learn to embrace follower roles in those
Summary
This paper is about the relationship between leader and follower. Kelley (1991) pointed out that “Without followers, leadership is meaningless and leaders don’t exist.” Kelley thought that leaders must have followers, so we could called them “leaders”. If they do not have followers, they are not leaders. In exhibit1: the writer showed us an “all leader organization” model. There are no research supporting it. Leadership is not just focus on leader only, leadership considers both leaders and followers. In leadership research, Leadership is an important concern in the globally competitive world of business. The neo-charismatic model of leadership combines charismatic. Transactional, and transformational, it will shows the followers as an important role in the process called leadership. The neo-charismatic leadership has 10 visionary behaviors: capable management, reward equity, communication leadership, credible leadership, caring leadership, creative leadership, confident leadership, follower-centered leadership, visionary leadership, and principled leadership. The role of followers in the leadership process is a proactive state. Followers support the leaders, and they like managers in the organization. The Exhibit2 shows the traditional view of followers. In the traditional view of followers, the followers will follow the leader in every condition, they are unconditional to do everything for leaders, and it is not viable in global market. Chaleff(2003) thought the five behaviors of courageous followers are courage to assume responsibility, courage to serve, courage to challenge, courage to participate in transformation, and courage to leave. Leaders and followers are the important to develop the leadership process, follower development and follower performance are key aspects of the leadership process. The recommendation of how to use in practice is that engineering organizations learn to embrace follower roles in those