Followership: A New Paradigm in Organizational Management

Abstract

In addition to the leadership theory, a new theory called Followership has been proposed, which means the ability to be a quality member of the organization. A good follower must be a strong person, have their own ideas, and be humble.

Followership is an important support in driving leaders and organizations to success. Increasing organizational efficiency so that the organization can operate successfully according to the set goals, one important factor is effective followers who help the organization's operations proceed to achieve their objectives, save resources in terms of time, assets, or human resources. All of this comes from the leader setting guidelines for followers to implement policies, along with the support of followers who help promote leadership for the organization's leaders.

In particular, followers with leadership who can give advice to leaders effectively. In terms of leaders, they should play their role in accepting and promoting the abilities of followers to develop followership all the time. However, by nature, organizations in general are full of various types and forms of followers and have different working styles, especially the changing generations, which is something that leaders must observe and accept and understand. Ready to learn the differences of followers and the follower status of each follower