Strategic Followership How Followers Impact Organizational Effective

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 follower

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Also by David B. Zoogah Managing Organizational Behavior in the African Context

Strategic Followership How Followers Impact Organizational Effectiveness David B. Zoogah

STRATEGIC FOLLOWERSHIP

Copyright © David B. Zoogah, 2014.

Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-35621-5 All rights reserved. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the World, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.

ISBN 978-1-349-67550-0 ISBN 978-1-137-35442-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137354426 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zoogah, David B. Strategic followership : how followers impact organizational effectiveness / David B. Zoogah. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Followership. 2. Organizational effectiveness. I. Title. HD57.8.Z66 2015 302.3 5—dc23 2014019680 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Integra Software Services First edition: November 2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Dedicated To Suakamane, my wonderful Mother, whose teachings were arrested by her untimely departure. May her continued guidance sustain and protect her grandchildren, Coniah and Jalen, in their journey toward the glorious summit she dreamed for them!

Contents

List of Figures

ix

List of Tables

xi

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

Part I Background Introduction 1 Theoretical Perspectives of Strategic Behavior 2 Followership

3 17 39

Part II Strategic Followership 3 Strategic Followership Framework 4 Restorative Followership 5 Transcendent Followership

61 89 127

Part III Extensions 6 Neural Basis of Strategic Followership 7 Virtuous Followership 8 Managerial Implications

157 175 191

Notes

199

Bibliography

205

Index

221

Figures

I.1 Domains of strategic followership 1.1 Integrated model of strategic followership

12 32

1.2 Decision tree of strategic action

35

2.1 Pareto efficiency frontier in the context of strategic followership

50

2.2 Structures of followership

52

3.1 Strategic followership framework

64

3.2 Models of strategic followership decision-making

70

3.3 Dimensions of strategic action

83

4.1 Stages of restorative value

91

4.2 Relational anchorage

93

4.3 Restorative states

95

5.1 Value curve of transcendent followership

133

5.2 Types of transcendent followers

137

6.1 Relationship between separation and integration strategies

159

6.2 Model of dual situations, neural processes, and strategic behavior

161

6.3 Attentional focus and strategic behavior

164

6.4 Neuromod