Followership in Action

Cases and Commentaries

Melissa K. Carsten|Rob Koonce|Michelle C. Bligh|Marc Hurwitz

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For years, leading management scholars have assumed the contribution of followers is an effect rather than a cause of an organization's success. The 25 case studies and commentaries in Followership in Action from such diverse places as Canada, France, India, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States lend further support to this argument. Followership in Action is a highly practical and scholarly book to which leadership scholars, practitioners, and students will actively turn to better understand and apply followership theory to everyday human resource development, management, and leadership contexts. It was written with administrators, coaches, consultants, executives, human resource professionals, academic professors, and support staff fully in mind. As the study of followership further escalates into the global mainstream of leadership studies, this book offers an excellent way to more proactively engage future leaders and followers in issues that they are likely to face in various organizational settings. Its business, education, and government content will appeal to academia, corporations, non-profits, and other enterprises.

SECTION I: BUSINESS 1. All in “The Family”: Leading and Following through Individual, Relational, and Collective Mindsets - Rob Koonce 2. A Match Made of Mission - Susan Keim 3. Followers Alert a Leader - B. Ariel Blair 4. The Acquired Executive - Marc Hurwitz 5. Integrating Conflict and Releasing Creative Energy: A Case for Mary Parker Follett - Suzanne Martin 6. Corporate President as Follower - Rushton ‘Rusty’ Ricketson Sr and W. David Winner 7. In Whom Do We Invest? - Eric Downing and Jennifer Moss Breen 8. Followership and the Paradox of Promotion - Rob Koonce, Kimberley A. Koonce and Sharon Armstead 9. Just in Time Followership - Rhonda K. Rodgers and Michelle C. Bligh 10. Diversity, Inclusion, and Followership - James H. Schindler and Sonya Rogers 11. The Importance of Followership and Reputation in an HR Consulting Firm - Debra Finlayson and William S. Harvey SECTION II: EDUCATION AND THE ARTS 12. Dancing Leader - Rens van Loon and Karlijn Kouwenhoven 13. Shattered Dream of a University Professor - Tanuja Agarwala 14. Artist as Apprentice: Reexamining Distance in the Leader-Follower Relationship - Kimberley A. Koonce 15. Online Cybersecurity Courses: Dissent and Followership - Steven Lee Smith 16. Who’s in Charge of a Residential College?: Student-led Seminars as an Example of Followership in Action - Eric K. Kaufman 17. Followership in Service Organizations: An English Secondary School Case of Distributed Leadership - Andrew Francis and Thomas Bisschoff SECTION III: ETHICS, GOVERNMENT, AND MILITARY 18. The Interplay of Follower and Leader Ethics: A Case Study of the Film “The Wave” - Kae Reynolds 19. Leaders, Followers, and Failures at the VHA - Heather Getha-Taylor 20. To Follow or not to Follow? A Tale of Corrupt Power and Unethical Leadership - Melissa K. Carsten 21. Followership, Hierarchies, and Communication: Achieving or Negotiating Buy-in within the Public Sector? - Rachael Morris and Sandra Corlett 22. A Mistake in the Numbers - Marc Hurwitz 23. Responding to Perceptions of Electoral Fraud: Followership, Emotions, and Collective Action from Malaysia’s 13th General Election - Eugene Y. J. Tee, Douglas S. E. Teoh and TamilSelvan Ramis 24. Leading from the Middle: Effective Followership - Ted Thomas and Paul Berg 25. Bernie Madoff’s Inner Circle - Rodger Adair

Business and other specialists from North America, Europe, and Asia provide 25 cases on followership, with commentaries. They illustrate how followership is more than an outcome of leadership and discuss aspects of followership in relation to business, education and the arts, and ethics, the government, and the military.
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Rob Koonce, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA Michelle C. Bligh, Neoma Business School, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France Melissa K. Carsten, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, USA Marc Hurwitz, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada