@article{f6c3a5cf714b40ecba019468f1fe73d3,
title = "Exploring Followership in a Public Setting: Is It a Missing Link Between Participative Leadership and Organizational Performance?",
abstract = "Based on data drawn from the Office of Personnel Management{\textquoteright}s Federal Human Capital Survey, as well as from data provided in written interviews, this study offers empirical evidence that followership mediates the relationship that exists between participative leadership and public organization performance.",
keywords = "followers, leadership, organizational performance",
author = "Chulwoo Kim and Schachter, {Hindy Lauer}",
note = "Funding Information: Presently, most employees, including managers, serve as leaders and followers in their agencies. Thus, this study provides insights into the ways employees interact with their superiors or subordinates and to the skills employees must develop to perform effectively in different roles. Leaders must acknowledge the support of followers. This will help followers successfully complement leaders{\textquoteright} behaviors and decisions. Leaders should also encourage organizational cultures where employees can openly express alternative opinions, as well as actively participate. Followers must actively support their leaders{\textquoteright} decisions. Yet, leaders must also encourage them to challenge executive opinions and to suggest their own candid ideas. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2013.",
year = "2015",
month = jul,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1177/0275074013508219",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "45",
pages = "436--457",
journal = "American Review of Public Administration",
issn = "0275-0740",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "4",
}