What is it about?
While still a neglected field of study, the research on followership has been grown in recent years. This article explores this recent research to give a full understanding of where the concept has evolved to and concludes that emotional intelligence plays an important role in the establishment of the leader-follower relationship.
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Why is it important?
In the leadership equation, the leader is only one half and the follower is the other. Today, the follower plays a more important role than ever before and it is important that leaders and followers alike understand the particulars of this very important role.
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Richard Martin is currently an assistant professor and program director for Keuka College’s Adult Studies programs in Criminal Justice in central New York. He is a retired police supervisor from the Rochester, New York, Police Department, a mid-sized city in upstate New York where he served as a patrol supervisor, field training officer, crime scene technician, accident reconstructionist, and police SCUBA diver. He can be reached at rmartin@keuka.edu.
Professor Rich Martin
Keuka College
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This page is a summary of: A Review of the Literature of the Followership Since 2008, SAGE Open, October 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2158244015608421.
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