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Title The art of followership : how great followers create great leaders and organizations / edited by Ronald E. Riggio, Ira Chaleff, Jean Lipman-Blumen ; foreword by James MacGregor Burns
Edition 1st edition
Published San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2008
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 386 pages) : illustrations
Series Warren Bennis signature series
Warren Bennis signature series.
Contents pt. 1. Defining and redefining followership. Rethinking followership / Robert E. Kelley -- Leadership : a partnership in reciprocal following / James Maroosis -- Three perspectives on followership / Jon P. Howell and María J. Méndez -- A new leadership-followership paradigm / Ernest L. Stech -- Followership : an outmoded concept / Joseph Rost -- pt. 2. Effective followership. Creating new ways of following / Ira Chaleff -- Rethinking leadership and followership : a student's perspective / Krista Kleiner -- The hero's journey to effective followership and leadership : a practitioner's focus / Gail S. Williams -- Courageous followers, servant-leaders, and organizational transformations / Linda Hopper -- Followership in a professional services firm / Brent Uken -- Developing great leaders, one follower at a time / Rodger Adair -- Getting together / Gene Dixon -- pt. 3. The pitfalls and challenges of followership. Following toxic leaders : in search of posthumous praise / Jean Lipman-Blumen -- What can Milgram's obedience experiments contribute to our understanding of followership / Thomas Blass -- What kind of leader do people want to follow / Michael Maccoby -- Bystanders to children's bullying : the importance of leadership by "innocent bystanders" / Lorna S. Blumen -- Whistleblowing as responsible followership / C. Fred Alford -- pt. 4. Followers and leaders : research, practice, and the future. Followers' cognitive and affective structures and leadership processes / Robert G. Lord -- Social identity processes and the empowerment of followers / Michael A. Hogg -- Lead, follow, and get out of the way : involving employees in the visioning process / Melissa K. Carsten and Michelle C. Bligh -- Effective followership for creativity and innovation : a range of colors and dimensions / Kimberly S. Jaussi, Andy Stefanovich, and Patricia G. Devlin -- Conformist, resistant, and disguised selves : a post-structuralist approach to identity and workplace followership / David Collinson -- The rise of authentic followership / Bruce J. Avolio and Rebecca J. Reichard
Summary The Art of Followership puts dynamic leader-follower interaction at the forefront of discussion. It examines the multiple roles followers play and their often complex relationship to leaders. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners from the burgeoning field of leadership/followership studies, this groundbreaking book outlines how followers contribute to effective leadership and to organizations overall. Drawing from various disciplines'from philosophy, to psychology and management, to education'the book defines followership and its myriad meanings. The Art of Followership explores the practice and research that promote positive followership and reveals the part that followers play in setting the standards and formulating the culture and policies of the group. The contributors include new models of followership and explore fresh perspectives on the contributions that followers make to groups, organizations, societies, and leaders. The book also explores the most current research on followership and includes insights and perspectives on the future of leader-follower relationships
Analysis Followership
Notes "A Warren Bennis book"--Page ii
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Leadership.
Organizational behavior.
Leadership
Group Dynamics
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Leadership.
Leadership.
Organizational behavior.
Leadership
Organizational behavior
Genre/Form Electronic books
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Riggio, Ronald E., editor.
Chaleff, Ira, editor.
Lipman-Blumen, Jean, editor.
ISBN 9780470186411
0470186410
1281221597
9781281221599
9786611221591
661122159X