Followership

David B. Zoogah

Chapter 2 in Strategic Followership, 2014, pp 39-58 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Followership is as old as creation; since the beginning of time people have followed one another. Even the study of followership has been done since ancient times. In the Roman Empire, we observed followers of Julius Caesar as loyal sometimes and disloyal at other times. While some stuck with him through thick and thin, others conspired to kill him. Further, the depth and breadth of scholarship on followership varies by disciplines. While history and political science scholars have examined followers to understand kingdoms, empires, and reigns, psychologists have examined followers to understand the psyche of individuals who are subject to influence, particularly bad influence. Since the 1920s, psychoanalysts and psychologists have examined the link between followers and leaders. Anthropologists have examined the influence of cultural and anthropological factors that affect individuals as followers while sociologists have emphasized the social class distinction between followers and leaders.

Keywords: Civic Virtue; Psychological Empowerment; Relational Capacity; Psychological Capital; Psychological Ownership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137354426_3

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