Strategic Followership, 2014 How Followers Impact Organizational Effectiveness

The concept of followership is not new, to the extent that it has been around since the beginning of time. In the organizational literature, followership (a complementary role to leadership) was ignored until recently, when scholars observed that followers play as much of a role as leaders in their relationship to each other. Followership is a role in which an individual succumbs to the influence of another person, deemed a leader. In Strategic Followership, Dr. Zoogah focuses on the recent phenomenon of strategic followership, where an individual behaves in response to a social problem either adaptively or transcendentally. In this ground-breaking work, he explores this type of followership and illustrates the various ways it can happen.

PART I 0. Introduction 1. Theoretical Perspectives of Strategic Behavior 2. Followership PART II 3. Strategic Followership 4. Restorative Followership 5. Transcendent Followership PART III 6. Neuro-followership 7. Virtuous Followership 8. Managerial Implications

David B. Zoogah is Associate Professor of Management at Morgan State University.