Exam 12: Followership

The main distinction between Kellerman's typology of followers and those of Zaleznik,Chaleff,and Kelley is ______.

Juanita is deeply committed to the conservation of natural resources.She currently works for a national organization whose executive director is recommending to its 50,000 members that they bargain with lawmakers by agreeing to allow development on a very small protected forest area in Vermont in order to save their political resources to fight harder for the protection of a major national park in Colorado.Juanita disagrees with her executive director's strategy and rallies a few of the extreme members to camp out in the Vermont forest for days on end as a show of protest.Juanita is what Kellerman would call a ______ follower.

Name two psychological factors that explain why some people are susceptible to following destructive leaders.

The psychological need followers have for membership in the human community is most closely aligned with the notions of ______.

These types of followers,according to Kellerman,demonstrate a medium level of engagement in the group's goal and may support or oppose the leader.

Destructive leaders such as Hitler and those who lead White supremacy groups gain followers because they prey on people's psychological need to ______.

You are in a staff meeting when your boss mentions an idea he's been thinking about for a while.You love his idea and feel it would benefit the organization.So you are the first staff member speak up and agree with the boss's strategy.You are demonstrating which of Carsten and colleagues' perspective on followers?

Rafi is on a website development team.She is the teammate who helps to maintain the status quo but will support an idea once she sees that others are supporting it.According to Kelley's followership typology,Rafi is a follower best described as ______.

A recently proposed theory of followership includes followership characteristics,leader characteristics,followership and leadership behaviors,and followership outcomes.

Followers can create contexts for the rise of destructive leaders.

Followership as an area of study is considered ______.

A theory of followership discussed in the textbook explicitly includes which of the following elements in the model?

Create your own original typology of followership.How many dimensions would it include,and what are those dimensions? Name and describe each of the resulting types of followers.

Carsten and colleagues offered new perspectives on followers that cast followers in a positive light.Name three of those positive facets of being a follower.

Your marketing team decides to include Jared in a current project because he is known for always challenging the leader's ideas.This is an example of using which perspective of followership?

Kelley framed notions of followership in a negative light.

Zaleznik assumed that followers behaved in certain ways based on their responses to inner and sometimes unconscious tensions involving ______.

Give the definition of followership as presented in your textbook.

According to Lipman-Blumen,leaders who have dysfunctional personal characteristics and engage in destructive behaviors are known as ______ leaders.

Zaleznik's early typology of followership was designed to ______.