Research Paper on:
Leadership Quality and Followers

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a major component of the quality of leadership as well. This paper considers the importance of the behavior and attributes of the followers and how they can be just  as important to the success of the leader as any other quality. THE ROLE OF THE FOLLOWER IN THE LEADER-FOLLOWER RELATIONSHIP The presumption has long been put forth that  the followers are causally related to organizational performance; however, within the structural foundation of organizational culture, this particular element is often overlooked or not given the same attention as with  other areas. Keeping this in mind, one would automatically surmise that without effective followers, organizational performance would cease to exist; yet, it is also the ability of negotiation as  well as that of the role of the followers that determines how effective leadership is in relation to organizational performance. The argument has been made that more effective leaders  can be selected or trained for better communication skills with their followers so that the situation can be configured to provide for enhanced leader and organizational effectiveness. "...Organizational researchers...have  invoked the concept of intravention to study the role played by managers in settling conflicts and disputes. A key factor to consider here is the power a manager has  over the disputants" (Viswesvaran et al, 1995, 249). THE FOLLOWER-LEADER RELATIONSHIP Images of Organization, by Gareth Morgan, emphasizes the ways organizations can further tap their greatest resource:  the employee, or follower. In order for an organization to work efficiently, the manager should take the responsibility of communicating and negotiating about planning and designing the work, while  the followers are left with only the task of implementation. In this way the followers do what they do best while the manager is there to do what he