Followership styles scrutinized: temporal consistency and relationships with job attitudes and self-efficacy.

ABSTRACT: While followership has been repeatedly acknowledged as an important part of leadership, key questions are still awaiting empirical testing. In our two studies, we test Kelley's prominent concept of followership styles for the first time in a longitudinal design. Specifically, we use a latent-state trait approach to examine the degree to which followership behaviors (i.e., active engagement [AE] and independent, critical thinking [ICT]) reflect rather stable or rather dynamic behaviors. Furthermore, we examine the relationships of followership behaviors with job attitudes (i.e., job satisfaction and organizational commitment) and self-efficacy in latent states cross-lagged models. We first test our hypotheses in a sample of N = 184 employees from eleven German service o

SUBMITTER: Ribbat M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10615031 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature