Typology Of Followership: A Case Study

A followership is a process by which the individual performs the role of a follower or a supporter. These people would support the leader’s or the company’s goals and ideas and work towards achieving these desirable objectives (Uhl-Bien, Riggio, Lowe, & Carsten, 2014). The focus of Kelly’s Typology of Followership is on the followers’ behavior and thinking elements. Kelly described different types of followers: sheep, alienated, yes person, survivor, and effective supporter. These categories also connect to dependent and independent critical and uncritical thinking. The model states: followers are more or less productive participants in the company’s activities and more or less in the critical thinking processes (Bjugstad, Thach, Thompson, & Morris, 2006, p.309). Kelly believed there are passive

As a leader, you regularly need to direct them. The alienated, on another hand, represents a category of people, who think their impute are not valued, so they don’t have the desire to create new ideas or share thoughts. These types of followers need to improve their confidence and communication skills. As a leader, you need to include these kinds of employees in contribution to company’s work so that they would feel more valued. The “yes person” is a type of followers with any suggestions, but don’t have any critical thoughts. As a leader, the best approach is to create tasks where employees will start to develop critical thinking and higher effectivity. They are hard workers and will do what was told; however, it can create some dangerous situations since these people will follow orders without any questions. In contrast, the survivor followers are real strategic employees; this type of individuals would analyze the present situation and what leader wants; after that, they would reflect whatever is more suitable to increase the chances of