Followership in Action

Rob Koonce, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USAMichelle C. Bligh, Neoma Business School, Mont-Saint-Aignan, FranceMelissa K. Carsten, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, USAMarc Hurwitz, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

• SECTION I: BUSINESS1. All in “The Family”: Leading and Following through Individual, Relational, and Collective Mindsets - Rob Koonce2. A Match Made of Mission - Susan Keim3. Followers Alert a Leader - B. Ariel Blair4. The Acquired Executive - Marc Hurwitz5. Integrating Conflict and Releasing Creative Energy: A Case for Mary Parker Follett - Suzanne Martin6. Corporate President as Follower - Rushton ‘Rusty’ Ricketson Sr and W. David Winner7. In Whom Do We Invest? - Eric Downing and Jennifer Moss Breen8. Followership and the Paradox of Promotion - Rob Koonce, Kimberley A. Koonce and Sharon Armstead9. Just in Time Followership - Rhonda K. Rodgers and Michelle C. Bligh10. Diversity, Inclusion, and Followership - James H. Schindler and Sonya Rogers11. The Importance of Followership and Reputation in an HR Consulting Firm - Debra Finlayson and William S. HarveySECTION II: EDUCATION AND THE ARTS12. Dancing Leader - Rens van Loon and Karlijn Kouwenhoven13. Shattered Dream of a University Professor - Tanuja Agarwala14. Artist as Apprentice: Reexamining Distance in the Leader-Follower Relationship - Kimberley A. Koonce15. Online Cybersecurity Courses: Dissent and Followership - Steven Lee Smith16. Who’s in Charge of a Residential College?: Student-led Seminars as an Example of Followership in Action - Eric K. Kaufman17. Followership in Service Organizations: An English Secondary School Case of Distributed Leadership - Andrew Francis and Thomas BisschoffSECTION III: ETHICS, GOVERNMENT, AND MILITARY18. The Interplay of Follower and Leader Ethics: A Case Study of the Film “The Wave” - Kae Reynolds19. Leaders, Followers, and Failures at the VHA - Heather Getha-Taylor20. To Follow or not to Follow? A Tale of Corrupt Power and Unethical Leadership - Melissa K. Carsten21. Followership, Hierarchies, and Communication: Achieving or Negotiating Buy-in within the Public Sector? - Rachael Morris and Sandra Corlett 22. A Mistake in the Numbers - Marc Hurwitz23. Responding to Perceptions of Electoral Fraud: Followership, Emotions, and Collective Action from Malaysia’s 13th General Election - Eugene Y. J. Tee, Douglas S. E. Teoh and TamilSelvan Ramis24. Leading from the Middle: Effective Followership - Ted Thomas and Paul Berg 25. Bernie Madoff’s Inner Circle - Rodger Adair

Business and other specialists from North America, Europe, and Asia provide 25 cases on followership, with commentaries. They illustrate how followership is more than an outcome of leadership and discuss aspects of followership in relation to business, education and the arts, and ethics, the government, and the military.