The dynamic interplay between followers and leaders

This thesis includes three articles focusing on the dynamic interplay between leaders and followers. The first article revisits traditional areas of the leadership literature and builds on the emerging followership literature to reintroduce followers as part of the social context of leaders. In an a...

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Autor: Oc, Burak
Tipo de documento: tese
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2014
País:España
Recursos:CBUC, CESCA
Repositório:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/392601
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/392601
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Leadership
Followers
Leaders
Justice
Liderazgo
Seguidores
Líderes
Justicia
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Resumo:This thesis includes three articles focusing on the dynamic interplay between leaders and followers. The first article revisits traditional areas of the leadership literature and builds on the emerging followership literature to reintroduce followers as part of the social context of leaders. In an attempt to build theoretical rationales for how followers influence leader behavior we draw on the social influence (e.g., Social Impact Theory, Latane, 1981) and the power literature to suggest individual (e.g., strength and immediacy of followers) and group-level (e.g., number of followers and unity of the group) characteristics that influence leader behaviors as a function of a leader’s informational and effect dependence on followers. The second chapter employs a broader power perspective and examines how subordinates (or followers) can actually influence their outcomes, and conceptualize their feedback as an important trigger of powerholders’ (or leaders’) behavioral self-regulation. The third article reverses the lenses to examine the impact leaders have on followers. Specifically, it focuses on how two parameters of leader behaviors (the level of leader allocation behavior and leader’s reaction to follower voice in response to that allocation) influence the emergence of shared follower fairness perceptions (also known as justice climate) over time.