'The Art of Followership' Puts Dynamic Leader-Follower Interaction at the Forefront of Discussion

Business Wire, Feb 26, 2008

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c84055) has announced the addition of "The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations" to their offering.

The Art of Followership examines the multiple roles followers play and their often complex relationship to leaders. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners from the burgeoning field of leadership/followership studies, this groundbreaking book outlines how followers contribute to effective leadership and to organizations overall.

Drawing from various disciplines from philosophy, to psychology and management, to education, the book defines followership and its myriad meanings. The Art of Followership explores the practice and research that promote positive followership and reveals the part that followers play in setting the standards and formulating the culture and policies of the group.

The contributors include new models of followership and explore fresh perspectives on the contributions that followers make to groups, organizations, societies, and leaders. The book also explores the most current research on followership and includes insights and perspectives on the future of leader-follower relationships.

Authors bio:

Ronald E. Riggio is director of the Henry R. Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College. He is coeditor of The Practice of Leadership and Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations, both from Jossey-Bass, and coauthor of Transformational Leadership, from Erlbaum.

Ira Chaleff is president of Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates, adjunct faculty at Georgetown University, and the author of The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders, from Berrett-Koehler.

Jean Lipman-Blumen is Thorton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and professor of organizational behavior at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, and author, The Allure of Toxic Leadership and Connective Leadership.

Contents:

Foreword by James MacGregor Burns.

Acknowledgments.

About the Contributors.

Introduction.

Warren Bennis.

PART ONE: DEFINING AND REDEFINING FOLLOWERSHIP.

1. Rethinking Followership (Robert E. Kelley).

2. Leadership: A Partnership in Reciprocal Following (James Maroosis).

3. Three Perspectives on Followership (Jon P. Howell and MarAa J. MA!ndez).

4. A New Leadership-Followership Paradigm (Ernest L. Stech).

5. Followership: An Outmoded Concept (Joseph Rost).

PART TWO: EFFECTIVE FOLLOWERSHIP.

6. Creating New Ways of Following (Ira Chaleff).

7. Rethinking Leadership and Followership: A Followera [TM]s Perspective (Krista Kleiner).

8. The Hero's Journey to Effective Followership and Leadership: A Practitioner's Focus (Gail S. Williams).

9. Courageous Followers, Servant-Leaders, and Organizational Transformations (Linda Hopper).

10. Followership in a Professional Services Firm (Brent Uken).

11. Developing Great Leaders, One Follower at a Time (Rodger Adair).

12. Getting Together (Gene Dixon).

PART THREE: THE PITFALLS AND CHALLENGES OF FOLLOWERSHIP.

13. Following Toxic Leaders: In Search of Posthumous Praise (Jean Lipman-Blumen).

14. What Can Milgram's Obedience Experiments Contribute to Our Understanding of Followership (Thomas Blass)?

15. What Kind of Leader Do People Want to Follow (Michael Maccoby)?

16. Bystanders to Children's Bullying: The Importance of Leadership by "Innocent Bystanders" (Lorna S. Blumen).

17. Whistleblowing as Responsible Followership (C. Fred Alford).

PART FOUR: FOLLOWERS AND LEADERS: RESEARCH, PRACTICE, AND THE FUTURE.

18. Followersa [TM]Cognitive and Affective Structures and Leadership Processes (Robert G. Lord).

19. Social Identity Processes and the Empowerment of Followers (Michael A. Hogg).

20. Lead, Follow, and Get out of the Way: Involving Employees in the Visioning Process (Melissa K. Carsten and Michelle C. Bligh).

21. Effective Followership for Creativity and Innovation: A Range of Colors and Dimensions (Kimberly S. Jaussi, Andy Stefanovich, and Patricia G. Devlin).

22. Conformist, Resistant, and Disguised Selves: A Post-Structuralist Approach to Identity and Workplace Followership (David Collinson).

23. The Rise of Authentic Followership (Bruce J. Avolio and Rebecca J. Reichard).

Notes.

Index.

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