Essays on Followership

Ways that follower assist leaders achieve organizational goals

Leadership involves working together will all members of the organization to solve a problem or achieve a goal. Followers play a critical role in influencing the action of leaders in an organization. Followership helps improve management and increases the potential of the organization regarding performance. According to McCallum (2013), followers act as judges in the organization and have the potential of influencing leadership directives. Followers help leaders achieve organizational goals by creating a workplace environment that accommodates leaders. Leaders need followers to work out on some issues such as decision-making process and creating organizational schedules. A good relationship between ...

Leadership in healthcare institutions is a difficult issue due to the distinct peculiarities of the industry, such as the need to continually think about allocating scarce resources, competition between healthcare institutions and a great role of followership (McKimm&Mannion, 2015, p.270). A crucial feature of the work of a leader in the sphere of healthcare is that such leader shall simultaneously be a good ethicist with strong decision-making abilities (Ledlow& Coppola, 2014, p.237). Leadership is also about creativity. Recently I took a quiz to get to know my degree of creativity, and found out that I am very creative (75/116) ( ...

Leadership 2

1. The communication is the necessary tool in the organization to transmit the most important resource in the operation process, the information. The information, in the form of mission, vision, objectives, orders and production data must be communicated in a clear and effective way in a bidirectional way from the management of the organization to the operative level of the company and backward. The used strategy for the leadership of an organization, enterprise or a family determines the success to achieve the planned objectives. There are three leadership communication styles: democratic, authoritarian and "laissez-faire". The authoritarian communication style is ...

The depiction of leader – follower mutual roles by Ira Chaleff is a very unique demonstration of the mutuality of this professional relationship with a brilliant creative artistic touch. Truly, it is the case and depending on the style, the success or failure of a team as such is often determined. However, there is one more such observable metaphor; that of a tag team wrestling round. Though not very often, there are tag teams where both the members are found to me in harmony with each other’s performance; especially if they are mutually in good terms. The more aggressive ...

PART 01

I believe that there are three key attributes of technically astute health leaders in the contemporary industry as follows. First, such leaders have adequate motivational skills. They exhibit the drive to achieve beyond their organizational expectation and motivate their followers through internal and external factors. Second, they work on the notion that empathy will help strengthen their emotional intelligence around their followers. They not only know the tough realities of the health care industry but also know how to overcome barriers. Finally, such leaders are excellent communicators in today’s technologically-driven industry. They possess the strength required to promote ...

Question 1: Followership

Followership is the capacity and willingness to follow a certain leader(s). It happens when employees admire the methods and attributes of their leader. The follower must have certain critical attributes to contribute to their followership. The attributes are awareness, diplomacy, courage, collaboration and critical thinking. Being a follower, means that one has to be aware of the needs of the employees and be in a position to read and understand people, particularly, the things that motivates or upsets them. Secondly, a good follower is diplomatic; he/she understands how to get along with employees with contrary opinions. Thirdly, being ...

Films have a history that is timeless as the sun. The different genres all have a followership among the millions of film enthusiasm all over the world. The followership is mainly due to the approach in production or the styles that the whole movie portrays. Besides, it could be that the main characters have a specialty in the role. This paper aims its research in comparing the horror in two films namely scream two and wrong turn by focusing its findings on two to three horror elements as depicted by Well and Evans in their respective book as discussed ...

All this is necessary to realize the mission and purpose of Microsoft, made ​​by the CEO (CEO) Microsoft Steve Ballmer - to give people and businesses around the world the opportunity to realize their potential by providing software solutions to their problems.

"Create the Future".

How the company leads: -This is one of the largest global corporations, with offices in more than 112 countries and 90.4 thousand employees. -Microsoft brand is supposed to be the most expensive and recignized trade mark. according to research by Best Global Brands 2012, its value is about $ 59 billion – the 5th place amont the ...

- DQ1: HOW DOES ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP LINK TO ISSUES OF FOLLOWERSHIP? Adaptive leadership entails a leadership framework that helps people and organizations to adapt and do well in challenging environments. A good leader is defined as one who is able to positively influence people to follow him and his ideologies in order to achieve some set objectives (Uhl-Bien, Marion, & McKelvey, 2007). As such, followership and leadership are intertwined. However, in order for one to be a good leader, they have to have the skills to adapt themselves, and to guide their followers to adapt to challenging environments without losing ...

Question 1: Based on the literature, summarize the role of followership and its significance in the leadership process.

The role of followership is held by individuals in a team, organization or group. Some of the roles of followers include holding up the vision of the leaders, their decisions and working with diligence and cooperation to ensure success in an organization. The importance of this part of followers to leadership is that it ensures smooth operations and enhances support and trust between the followers and the leaders. Another role of followers is to express honest feedback to how they feel about decisions and matters concerning their business .

Question 2: When followers have a participatory role, how do this impact goal setting and performance reviews?

Goals set when followers are given a participatory role tend to be more ...

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1. Improving patient wait time Patient wait time is one of the key determinants of ambulatory care efficiency as it is directly related to the speed of care delivery. When the ambulatory clinic is able to improve the patient wait time, the gap between time that patient reaches the clinic and time that care is delivered to him is minimized. Improving ‘nurse to patient ratio’ is a better strategy to reduce patient wait time and to enhance patient satisfaction. In addition, the organization can improve its patients wait time by promoting team work and by effective ...

QUANTITATIVE (Statistical) Studies Only

This Research Plan form, version 2.42, must be completed and reviewed before taking steps to collect data and write the dissertation. In the School of Business and Technology, its satisfactory completion satisfies dissertation milestone 5, indicating that the RP proposal has passed the “scientific merit review,” part of the IRB process. Before going any further, review carefully the Research Plan Instructions, v2.4, available on iGuide. It will be difficult to complete the RP without using the Instructions.

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It is obvious that for any leader to termed so they must have followers. The followers are the distinctive difference between managers and leaders; managers can operate with only the compliance of their underlings while leaders require people to follow them willingly. Followership is complementary to leadership and is an essential part for a leader to be effective at their job. As such, it is entirely different if the followers comply with the orders or want to do their duties. The leaders who recognize this essential difference and utilize it make the greatest impact on their activities. The relationships ...

JAPANESE POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND/OR SOCIETY BETWEEN 1868-1920

JAPANESE POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND/OR SOCIETY BETWEEN 1868-1920 The period of 1868-1920 saw some changes in the history of Japan. These changes had significant impacts on the political, economic and social aspects of the society of Japan. They influenced the perceptions of individuals during that period concerning political and economic elements of the society. The Japanese developed various attitudes towards these changes and had various thoughts concerning these changes. There was a correlation between the as some of them had significant influences on others. That is; some of the political changes experienced during this time played a role in the transformation ...

Leaders and managers serve as a bridge between the organization and the workforce. The role of leaders and managers are so paramount that it is central to the success or otherwise of an organization. Whatever the leaders and managers do have a direct bearing on the outcome of the goals and objectives of the organization. If leaders and managers perform their duties accordingly, organizational goals would be achieved. On the other hand, if they fail to perform to expectations, there might be setback in the process of achieving organization goals. The structure of an organization also has a direct bearing on the ...

DQ Two Week/One

DQ Two Week/One

Introduction

The paradox of leadership and followership is caused by a combination of factors that can be explained theoretically. There is a need to have leadership even if it causes a difference between followers and leaders.

Leadership in any organization is a fundamental need. There is a need to have an order of hierarchy to ensure that organizations are run in a desirable manner. The leader must be someone who is an autonomous thinker. He must be eager to listen to the ideas of followers but make decisions based on his knowledge and in the best interest of the organization. Leadership is needed ...

Introduction

Nurses are likely to come across a myriad of situations in their daily routines that will call for them to exercise their leadership capabilities. While some will adapt to these situations quite naturally, others may find the concept of leadership in this field difficult to grasp. In spite of these differences, effective leadership is an important value as it aids in the delivery of proper health care. In effect, this ensures that the patient receives the best care and fosters a healthy working environment. In an increasingly demanding working environment, leadership traits are a desirable attribute in nursing. Leadership may be ...

Schultz’s leadership model

Great leaders usually have certain characteristics that make them special. For any organization to be successful, then they should have great leaders with special characteristics. This research will evaluate the leadership of Howard Schultz whom I believe is a leader who possesses the characteristics of a good leader. Howard Schultz is an exemplary American businessperson who has shown considerable moral qualities that make him stand out as a leader in the society. Howard Schultz was the man who turned Starbucks coffee into an international brand. Howard was born in a housing estate In Brooklyn New York in 1953. He was the first ...

Group processes, leadership issues, and concepts relative to groups

As any group evolves from one stage to another, it undergoes transformations which are either structured or unstructured. This transformation is referred to as the group process. While a group has several participants, there are roles that are specific to all the parties that are involved. Of importance are the roles that are relative to the group leadership and the subordinates. In a group process, the leadership is always supposed to carry out three basic roles; form, storm, norm and perform. This implies that, the strategy that is supposed to be used should be initiated by the leadership; the strategy ...