The Nature of Biblical Followership, Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9783031370847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Opis

From a Biblical perspective, followership is an important aspect of leadership and is exemplified in the lives of numerous individuals in the Bible. These examples offer valuable guidance for how followership can be applied in modern organizations. Divided into three parts, this volume explores the definition and impact of followership on leadership, examining its interdependence with servant leadership, as well as the positive and negative aspects of the relationship between followers and leaders. The book also delves into how followers share power in the workplace and the characteristics and behaviors of followers.Overall, this work contributes to the emerging field of followership in organizational leadership research, with a particular emphasis on the Biblical perspective but also relevant to broader leadership studies.

Spis treści

Unit 1 - SERVANT LEADERSHIP

Chapter 1 - Followership and Servant-Leadership: Companions in

an Endless Relationship

Robert J. Cruz and Kathleen

Patterson

           

            Chapter 2 - Servant Followership and Servant Leadership

Seth Akhilele

 

Chapter 3 - Leader–Follower Influence from a Servant Leadership

Perspective in a Southern African Context

Karen Cerff

 

 

Unit 2 - RELATIONAL

Chapter 4 - Navigating Toxic Followership through Strategic

Communication

Hanisha Besant

 

Chapter 5 - When Implicit

Leadership Styles and Implicit Followership Style are Misaligned

Bruce E. Winston

 

Chapter 6 - Coaching as a Leader

and Follower Development Tool

Diane M. Wiater

 

Chapter 7 - The

Follower-Discipler Relationship

Michael R. Gilbert

 

Chapter 8 - Follower Power and Power Dynamics within the

Leader-Follower Relationship

Fred Wantante Settuba-Male

 

Chapter 9 - Mentoring and Followership: Exploring the Impact of

Dyadic Symbiosis

Valerie Arguello

 

 

Unit 3 - THE FOLLOWER

Chapter 10 - Akolotheo as an

Intensive Follower Style

Bruce E. Winston

 

Chapter 11- Followership and Exchange: Examining Costs and Gains

in Obeying the Call to Follow

Ashley Whitaker

 

Chapter 12 - Followership,

Submission, and Self-Efficacy

Sally V. Fry

 

Chapter 13 - Trust in

Followership

Keisha N. Morris

 

Chapter 14 - Empowerment and Followership: Nine Pivotal Values

that Shape Effective Followers

Sheba L. Wilburn

 

Chapter 15 - My Brother’s Keeper: Broken Leader-Follower

Compacts in the US Armed Forces

David Boisselle and Jeanne McDonnell

O autorze

Kathleen Patterson is Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in the School of Business and Leadership at Regent University, USA. She is a noted expert on servant leadership.

Bruce E. Winston is Professor of Business and Leadership at Regent University, USA. He previously served as Dean of the School of Leadership Studies. He has authored and edited several books related to biblical approaches to modern management.

Blurb

From a Biblical perspective, followership is an important aspect of leadership and is exemplified in the lives of numerous individuals in the Bible. These examples offer valuable guidance for how followership can be applied in modern organizations.

Divided into three parts, this volume explores the definition and impact of followership on leadership, examining its interdependence with servant leadership, as well as the positive and negative aspects of the relationship between followers and leaders. The book also delves into how followers share power in the workplace and the characteristics and behaviors of followers.

Overall, this work contributes to the emerging field of followership in organizational leadership research, with a particular emphasis on the Biblical perspective but also relevant to broader leadership studies.

Kathleen Patterson is Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in the School of Business and Leadership at Regent University, USA. She is a noted expert on servant leadership.

Bruce E. Winston is Professor of Business and Leadership at Regent University, USA. He previously served as Dean of the School of Leadership Studies. He has authored and edited several books related to biblical approaches to modern management.