The Relationship Between Followership Styles and Leadership Styles

Year 2019, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 407 - 449, 15.11.2019

Eman Bani Essa Aref Alattari

https://doi.org/10.30828/real/2019.2.7

Cited By: 2

Abstract

This
study aimed at identifying patterns of the followership styles and
their relation to the leadership styles of academic leaders as perceived by
faculty members in public and private universities in northern Jordan. The
researchers used the descriptive correlation approach. The Kelley’s scale was
adopted for the followership styles, and stellar’s leadership scale for
leadership styles. The study instruments were administered to a stratified
random sample of 304 faculty members at (Yarmouk, JUST, Al-Bayt,
Philadelphia, Ajloun Private University, Jerash Private University
and Irbid Private University). The validity and reliability of the
study tools have been verified. Chi-Square Goodness of Fit was employed to
compare the expected with the observed distribution of frequencies. The results
showed that the Exemplary followership type was the highest observed, followed
by the pragmatic pattern and finally the Alienated and the Passive pattern. The
results showed that the most prevalent leadership styles are the empowering,
democratic, and autocratic. Study results also showed that there were no
statistically significant differences between the leadership and the
followership styles. 

Keywords

Followership styles, Leadership Styles, Jordanian Universities

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