FOLLOWERSHIP

OTS Topic

Followership is just as important to AF Officers as Leadership and Management.

December 2010

Compiled by Bibliography Branch
Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center
Maxwell AFB, AL

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Internet Resources

Air War College:  Strategic Leadership Studies. 
Available online at:  http://leadership.au.af.mil

Barrette, Elizabeth.  Balancing Powers:  Leadership and Followership in Community.  Communities No. 148:30-33 Fall 2010.
Available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=53473986&site=ehost-live

Bennis, Warren.  The Art of Followership.  Leadership Excellence 27:3-4 January 2010.
Available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=48636681&site=ehost-live

Blanchard, Anita and others.  Followership Styles and Employee Attachment to the Organization.  Psychologist-Manager Journal 12:111-131 April-June 2009.
Available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=39359303&site=ehost-live

Borekci, Dilek Yilmaz.  Influence of Alternative Work Arrangements on Followers' Perceptions of Leader-Follower Relations and Leader Behavior.  International Journal of Leadership Studies 4:161-183 2009.
Available online at:  http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/ijls/new/vol4iss2/IJLS_V4Is2_Borekci.pdf

Buchanan, Eddie.  Can There Be Leadership Without Followership?  Fire Engineering 160:105-109 August 2007.
Available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=26259508&site=ehost-live

Cavell, David P.  Leadership or Followership:  One or Both?  hfm (Healthcare Financial Management) 61:142-144 November 2007.
Available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=27494157&site=ehost-live

ChangingMinds.Org:  Followership. 
Available online at:  http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/followership/followership.htm

Kersten, E. L.  The Crucibles of Followership.  Conference Board Review 46:70-71 Summer 2009.
Available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=43418179&site=ehost-live

Kupers, Wendelin.  Perspectives on Integrating Leadership and Followership.  International Journal of Leadership Studies 2:194-221 2007.
Available online at:  http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/ijls/new/vol2iss3/kupers/kupers.htm

Ludwig, Ma'ikwe Schaub.  More Perspectives on Leadership and Followership:  A Response to Elizabeth Barrette.  Communities No. 148:34-35+ Fall 2010.
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Moorman, Robert H. and Grover, Steven.  Why Does Leader Integrity Matter to Followers? An Uncertainty Management-Based Explanation.  International Journal of Leadership Studies 5:102-114 2009.
Available online at:  http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/ijls/new/vol5iss2/IJLS_vol5_iss2_moorman_grover_leader_integrity.pdf

Mushonga, Shingirayi M. and Torrance, Christopher G.  Assessing the Relationship Between Followership and the Big Five Factor Model of Personality.  Review of Business Research 8:185-193 2008.
Available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=36047636&site=ehost-live

Spell, Jim.  Follow the Leader, Redefined.  Fire Chief 53:26+ December 2009.
Available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=47558845&site=ehost-live

van Quaquebeke, Niels and Eckloff, Tilman.  Defining Respectful Leadership:  What It Is, How It Can Be Measured, and Another Glimpse at What It Is Related To.  Journal of Business Ethics 91:343-358 February 2010.
Available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eoah&AN=18748734&site=ehost-live

van Quaquebeke, Niels and others.  Two Lighthouses to Navigate:  Effects of Ideal and Counter-Ideal Values on Follower Identification and Satisfaction with Their Leaders.  Journal of Business Ethics 93:293-305 May 2010.
Available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=49086741&site=ehost-live

van Vugt, Mark.  Evolutionary Origins of Leadership and Followership.  Personality and Social Psychology Review 10:354-371 November 2006.
Available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=23579760&site=ehost-live
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Books

The Art of Command:  Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell, edited by Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews.  Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 2008.  276 p.
Chapter 9, Exemplary Followership:  Colin L. Powell, by Jeffrey J. Matthews, pp. 231-264.
Book call no.:  355.33041 A784

The Art of Followership:  How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations, edited by Ronald E. Riggio and others.  San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass, 2008.  386 p.
Book call no.:  658.4092 A7841  (Temporarily shelved at SOS Reserve)

AU-24:  Concepts for Air Force Leadership, edited by Richard I. Lester.  5th ed.  Maxwell Air Force Base, AL, Air University Press, 2008.  536 p.
The Ten Rules of Good Followership, by Phillip S. Meilinger, pp 105-107. 
Article is also available at:  http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/au-24/meilinger.pdf
Book call no.:  358.4133041 C744 2008

Baldoni, John.  Lead Your Boss:  the Subtle Art of Managing Up.  New York, AMACOM, 2010.  225 p.
Book call no.:  650.13 B178L (Temporarily shelved at SOS Reserve)

Bass, Bernard M. and Bass, Ruth.  The Bass Handbook of Leadership:  Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications.  4th ed.  New York, Free Press., 2008.  1516 p.
Chapter 16, Followers and Mutual Influence on Leadership, pp 400-436.
Book call no.:  301.155 S873h 2008 

Chaleff, Ira.  The Courageous Follower:  Standing Up To & For Our Leaders.  3rd ed.  San Francisco, CA, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2009.  264 p.
Book call no.:  302.35 C436c 2009

Contemporary Issues in Leadership, edited by William E. Rosenbach and Robert L. Taylor.  6th ed.  Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 2006.  290 p.
Followership:  It's Personal, too, by Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones, pp 127-128.
The End of Leadership:  Exemplary Leadership is Impossible Without Full Inclusion, Initiatives, and Cooperation of Followers, by Warren Bennis, pp 129-142.
Followers as Partners:  The Spirit of Leadership, by Earl H. Potter III and William E. Rosenbach, pp 143-153.
Book call no.:  303.34 C761 2006

Kellerman, Barbara.  Followership:  How Followers are Creating Change and Changing Leaders.  Boston, MA, Harvard Business School Press, 2008.  305 p.
Book call no.:  302.35 K29f  (Temporarily shelved at SOS Reserve)

Leadership in Place:  How Academic Professionals Can Find Their Leadership Voice, edited by Jon F. Wergin.  Bolton, MA, Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 2007.  242 p.
Chapter 8, Following the Leader and Leading the Followers, by Joseph Barwick, pp 149-168.
Book call no.:  378.101 L434

Leadership:  Understanding the Dynamics of Power and Influence in Organizations, edited by Robert P. Vecchio.  2nd ed.  Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.  582 p.
Effective Followership:  Leadership Turned Upside Down, by Robert P. Vecchio, pp. 109-118.
Book call no.:  658.4092 L4347

Military Leadership:  In Pursuit of Excellence, edited by Robert L. Taylor and others.  6th ed.  Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 2009.  321 p.
Chapter 6, Followers as Partners:  Ready When the Time Comes, by Earl H. Potter III and William E. Rosenbach, pp 85-96.
Book call no.:  355.33041 M644 2009

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Documents  (Student Research)

Corrothers, Eve M.  Say No to "Yes Men":  Followership in the Modern Military.  Maxwell Air Force Base, AL, Air Command and Staff College, 2009.  35 p.
Also available online at:  https://www.afresearch.org/skins/rims/display.aspx?moduleid=be0e99f3-fc56-4ccb-8dfe-670c0822a153&mode=user&action=downloadpaper&objectid=3596fa9b-e500-4d86-98eb-f841dc2af34e&rs=PublishedSearch
Doc. call no.:  M-U 43122 C8252s

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Periodicals

Agho, Augustine O.  Perspectives of Senior-Level Executives on Effective Followership and Leadership.  Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies 16:159-166 November 2009.
Also available online at:  http://jlo.sagepub.com/content/16/2/159.full.pdf+html

Allio, Robert J.  Bad Leaders:  How They Get That Way and What To Do about Them.  Strategy & Leadership 35:12-17 May 2007.

Baker, Susan D.  Followership:  The Theoretical Foundation of a Contemporary Construct.  Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies 14:50-60 August 2007.

Bennis, Warren.  The Challenges of Leadership in the Modern World.  American Psychologist 62:2-5 January 2007.

Bligh, Michelle C. and Robinson, Jill L.  Was Gandhi "Charismatic"? Exploring the Rhetorical Leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.  Leadership Quarterly 21:844-855  October 2010.

Bluedorn, Allen C. and Jaussi, Kimberly S.  Leaders, Followers and Time.  The Leadership Quarterly 19:654-668 December 2008.

Boerner, Sabine and others.  Follower Behavior and Organizational Performance:  The Impact of Transformational Leaders.  Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies  13:15-26 February 2007.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=1220188091&sid=1&Fmt=6&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Borekci, Dilek Yilmaz.  Leader's ICT Usage's Influence on Follower's Positive Work Attitudes Via Perceived Leader-Follower Relations.  Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies 16:141-158 November 2009.
Also available online at:  http://jlo.sagepub.com/content/16/2/141.full.pdf+html

Carsten, Melissa K. and others.  Exploring Social Constructions of Followership:  A Qualitative Study.  The Leadership Quarterly 21:543-562 June 2010.

Chaleff, Ira.  Promoting the Healthy Flow of Information to Senior Leaders.  Leader to Leader 2010:12-16 Spring 2010.
Also available online at:  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ltl.408/pdf

Fairfield, Douglas.  Empowered Followership:  Without Followers, Leadership is Unfulfilled.  Marine Corps Gazette 91:54-56 November 2007.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1374579471&sid=1&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Foster, Gregory D.  True Transformation.  Armed Forces Journal 147:24-39 December 1, 2009.
Also available online at:  http://infoweb.newsbank.com

Graen, George and others.  Issues in Operationalizing and Comparing Leadership Constructs.  Leadership Quarterly 21:563-575 June 2010.

Hannah, Sean T. and others.  Advancing a Research Agenda for Leadership in Dangerous Contexts.  Military Psychology 22:157-189 January 2010.

Hetland, Hilde and others.  Followers' Personality and Leadership.  Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies 14:322-331 May 2008.

Hinrichs, Kim T.  Follower Propensity to Commit Crimes of Obedience:  The Role of Leadership Beliefs.  Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies  14:69-76 August 2007.

Kotlyar, Igor and Karakowsky, Leonard.  Falling Over Ourselves to Follow the Leader:  Conceptualizing Connections Between Transformational Leader Behaviors and Dysfunctional Team Conflict.  Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies  14:38-49 August 2007.

Kupers, Wendelin.  Inter-Leadership:  Why and How Should We Think of Leadership and Followership Integrally?  Leadership 4:443-475 November 2008.

Lapidot, Yael and others.  The Impact of Situational Vulnerability on the Development and Erosion of Followers' Trust in Their Leader.  The Leadership Quarterly 18:16-34 Februrary 2007.

Martin, Richard.  Followership:  The Natural Complement to Leadership.  FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin 77:8-11 July 2008.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=34389870&site=ehost-live

Neal, Bruno.  Heroes and Sidekicks:  Ensuring Proper Followership.  T+D 64:76-77 September 2010.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=53384203&site=ehost-live

Padilla, Art and others.  The Toxic Triangle:  Destructive Leaders, Susceptible Followers, and Conducive Environments.  The Leadership Quarterly 18:176-194 June 2007.

Stam, Daan and others.  Focusing on Followers:  The Role of Regulatory Focus and Possible Selves in Visionary Leadership.  The Leadership Quarterly 21:457-468 June 2010.

Sy, Thomas.  What Do You Think of Followers?  Examining the Content, Structure, and Consequences of Implicit Followership Theories.  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process 113:73-84 November 2010.

Walumbwa, Fred O. and others.  Psychological Processes Linking Authentic Leadership to Follower Behaviors.  Leadership Quarterly 21:901-914 October 2010.

Warner, Nicholas.  Screening Leadership Through Shakespeare:  Paradoxes of Leader-Follower Relations in Henry V on Film.  The Leadership Quarterly 18:1-15 February 2007.

Wolfram, Hans-Joachim and Mohr, Gisela.  Transformational Leadership, Team Goal Fulfillment, and Follower Work Satisfaction:  The Moderating Effects of Deep-Level Similarity in Leadership Dyads.  Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies 15:260-274 February 2009.

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Authority Materials

Air Force Doctrine Document 1-1.  Leadership and Force Development 18 February 2006.  1 vol.
Fairchild Authority Collection:  Library Use Only.
Also available online at:  http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/service_pubs/afdd1_1.pdf

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