The Practice of Followership: From Theory to Application

Hurwitz, Marc; Koonce, Rob

doi:10.1002/jls.21491

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“…Clearly, there is a need to change attitudes about the relevance of followership and improve understanding of what constitutes effective followership. The difficulty with this prescription, however, is the paucity of resources available for teaching followership in the classroom (e.g., Hurwitz & Hurwitz, 2015; Hurwitz & Koonce, 2016; Koonce, Bligh, Carsten, & Hurwitz, 2016; Morris, 2014; and some leadership texts now include a chapter on followership).…”

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Followership: A Classroom Exercise to Introduce the Concept

Hurwitz¹

2017

Management Teaching Review

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Followership is valuable for personal and organizational success, whether success is measured by satisfaction with work, improved team relationships, obtaining promotions, or quality and quantity of work output. Furthermore, senior executives and coaches recognize it as a critical skill. Despite this, creating effective followership training in the classroom is challenging because of media messages that preference leadership, internal schemas held by students that ignore followership, and cultural biases against it. This article presents a memorable kinaesthetic, visual classroom activity that introduces followership in a theory-agnostic way. The exercise begins with students introducing each other as leaders or followers, and then debriefing that activity using the Describe, Analyze, and Evaluate methodology from multicultural training. Over a 10-year period, the exercise has successfully engaged undergraduate and graduate students, MBA candidates, and working professionals from frontline to senior management.

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Followership: A Classroom Exercise to Introduce the Concept

Hurwitz¹

2017

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Integrating Followership Into Leadership Programs

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2020

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Followership is more than just a topic to be tacked on to the body of a leadership program; it fundamentally alters the way students engage with leadership theory and practice. In this chapter, the authors draw on 15 years of experience supporting, modifying, and delivering followership training within leadership programs to provide the unique planning and design elements required to include followership into leadership programs, along with samples of course design and practical classroom activities.

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