Understanding your leader: the art of followership

Although an inexhaustible interest in leadership research continues to escalate, one area of study that has been consistently neglected is followership. Drawing from a wide range of relevant literature, this thesis builds a case for Followership using theory and research from the leadership field, the current contribution to the followership field and from other relevant literature, proposing a Followership Process Model that illustrates how all this information can, and should, be used as a resource to be employed in determining the most appropriate followership strategy to use with a particular leader in a given situation.