The ideal and the counter-ideal follower – advancing implicit followership theories
The ideal and the counter-ideal follower – advancing implicit followership theories
复制标题
DOI：
10.1108/lodj-04-2015-0085
复制
发表时间：
2016-10
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
N. Junker;S. Stegmann;Stephan Braun;R. Dick
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
N. Junker;S. Stegmann;Stephan Braun;R. Dick
研究目的内隐追随者理论-即个人持有的关于追随者如何以及他们应该如何的假设-仍处于起步阶段。现有的几种方法在它们定义为这些理论的对象方面有所不同。作者认为现有文献中缺乏两个方面：首先，作者认为不仅要关注有效的追随者，而且要关注理想的追随者-这使得研究追随者的特征超越了表现;其次，作者证明了研究领导者明确认为不受追随者欢迎的特征（即反理想追随者原型）的重要性。本文的目的是填补这些空白，并通过引入内隐追随理论的概念作为理想追随者的假设来扩展文献。设计/方法/方式-作者首先提出了三项研究进行开发一个规模来衡量理想和反理想的追随者原型，分别。在第四项研究中，作者应用了这个量表，并将其与现有的内隐追随理论的测量方法进行了比较，以了解它们在预测领导者追随者评级方面的价值。结果-结果表明，新开发的措施是可靠和有效的，并包括一个有用的工具，为今后的研究。实用意义-规模可用于领导力发展计划。独创性/价值-这项研究是为数不多的，提供理论和证据的相关性，内隐追随理论，是第一个考虑理想的追随者在这方面。
Purpose Research on implicit followership theories – that is, individually held assumptions about how followers are and how they should be – is still in its infancy. The few existing approaches differ in what they define as the object of these theories. The authors consider the lack of two aspects in the existing literature: first, the authors consider it important to not only focus on effective but also on ideal followers – which allows investigating follower characteristics that go beyond just performance; and second, the authors demonstrate the importance of the study of characteristics which leaders explicitly see as undesirable for followers (i.e. counter-ideal follower prototypes). The purpose of this paper is to fill these gaps and to extend the literature by introducing the concept of implicit followership theories as assumptions of ideal followers. Design/methodology/approach The authors first present three studies conducted to develop a scale to measure ideal and counter-ideal follower prototypes, respectively. In a fourth study, the authors apply this scale and compare it to existing measures of implicit followership theories regarding their value for predicting leaders’ follower ratings. Findings Results show that the newly developed measure is reliable and valid, and comprises a useful tool for future research. Practical implications The scale can be used for leadership development programs. Originality/value The study is among the few that provide theory and evidence for the relevance of implicit followership theories and is the first to consider the ideal follower in this regard.