PRESENTATION ONWHAT EVERY LEADER NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT FOLLOWERS

Presented By:-Narinder KumarDEPT. MBA(HRM&OB)

CONTENTIntroduction of articleLeader vs FollowersA level of playing fieldTypes of followers typologyA new typology(by Barbara kellerman)Good and Bad followersConclusion

LEADERS FOLLOWERS

Speak Listencontrol information Guess

Know Have Opinions

Decide Do what they are toldDirect resources Make do with less and less

Command obey

LEADER VS FOLLOWERS

Followers can be identified by: Rank or Behaviour

Rank: Subordinate who has less powwer,authorty and influence, and influence than do their superiors.

Behaviour : Going along with what someone else wants and intends.

A Level of playing field

To various degrees, Harvard Business School professor Abraham Zalezink, professor Robert Kelley, executive coach Ira Chaleff and Barbara Kellerman have all argued that leader with even some understanding of what drives their subordinates can be a great help to themselves, their followers and their organizations.

Types of Followers typologies

By Abraham Zalezink in (1965)

By Robert Kelley in (1992)

By Ira Chaleff in (1995)

He distinguish among the different kinds of subordinates, he placed them along two axes: •Dominances and SubmissionOr Activity and Passivity

He distinguished followers from one another according to factors such as motivation and behavior in the workplace.

He classified subordinates according to the degree to which they supported leaders and the degree to which they challenged them.

Abraham Zalezink followership styles

• Controlling but passive, in part because they feel guilty about privately wanting to dominate

• Rebellious, sometimes spontaneous and courageous

• Want to submit to the control of the authority figure

• Care little or not at all about what happens at work and behave accordingly

Withdrawn Masochist

ic

Compulsive

Impulsive

Dominance(controlling)

Submission(being controlled)

Active mode of behavior

Passive mode of behavior

ROBERT KELLEY FOLLOWERSHIP STYLES

Pragmatic

Survivor

Alienated Effective

ConformistPassive

Kind of followe

rsIndependent, critical

thinking

Dependent ,critical thinking

passive Active

Ira Chaleff ’s Followership Styles

Individualists

Partners

Resources Implementers

Supervisory support HIGHLOW

HIGH

Challenge

Ira Chaleff’s followership

stylesIMPLEMENTERS

PARTNERS

INDIVIDUALISTS

RESOURCES

Level of engagement

Barbara’s followershipFollowers can be identified by: Rank or

Behavior-Rank: subordinates who has less power,

authority and influence, and influence than do their superiors

-Behavior: going along with what someone else wants and intends

“……implies a relationship(rank) between subordinate and superior, and a response (behavior), of the former to the latter.”

IsolatesBystanders

Participants Activists

Diehards

Kinds of followership styles By Barbara Kellerman In 2007

•Completely detached•There to do what they must to get and nothing more•Alienated from the system, the group the organization•Silent and ignored

Isolates

Observe, but do not participate.Make deliberate decisions to stand aside and

disengage from leaders and the group dynamic.Their withdrawal is a declaration of neutrality that

amount to support for whoever.They do nothing even when doing something is not

especially costly or especially risky.

Bystanders

Are in some way engaged.They either clearly favour their leaders and

groups and organization or they are clearly opposed.

They invest their engagement to try have an impact.

By and leaders want followers who are participants assuming they are in support and not in opposition.

There are those followers who whiles generally supportive of their leaders and of the organization of which they are members, nevertheless go their own way.

participates

Feel strongly about their leaders and act accordingly.They are eager, energetic, and engaged.They work either on behalf of their leaders or to

undermine and unseat them.They are either a major resource or a major bane.They care a great deal.a. They care about their leaders, pro and con.b. They care about each other, presumably pro.c. They care about the whole of which they are a part.• They should be watched and they should be judged.

Activists

Are prepared to die if necessary for their causes, whether an individual, an idea, or both.

Deeply devoted to their leaders or ready to them from positions of power, authority, and influence by any means necessary.

Defined by their dedication.Is all consuming it is who you are it

determines what you do.They are only so many diehards a society can

take and, there are only so many followers willing to play the part.

Diehards

Diehards

Activists

Participants

Bystanders

Isolates Level of Engagement

Followers Classifieds by level of Engagement

Types of followers

Good and Bad followersGood followers will actively support a leader

who is good (effective and ethical) and will actively oppose a leader who is bad (ineffective and unethical). Good followers invest time and energy in making informed judgement about who their leaders are and what they espouse they take the appropriate action

Conversely , bad followers will do nothing whatsoever to contribute to the group or organization. Or they will actively oppose a leader who is good. They will actively support a leader who is bad.

Leaders and followers as inseparable, indivisible, and impossible to conceive the without the other.

A good leader listens and talks to the team to find the individual strengths of each team member.

Activist follower strongly support their leader and managers .

Passive follower not strongly support their leader and managers and never do anything.

A sign of a good leader is not how many follower you have , but how many leader you create.

Conclusion

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