Strategic Followership ― How Followers Impact Organizational Effectiveness

The concept of followership is not new, to the extent that it has been around since the beginning of time. In the organizational literature, followership (a complementary role to leadership) was ignored until recently, when scholars observed that followers play as much of a role as leaders in their relationship to each other. Followership is a role in which an individual succumbs to the influence of another person, deemed a leader. In Strategic Followership, Dr. Zoogah focuses on the recent phenomenon of strategic followership, where an individual behaves in response to a social problem either adaptively or transcendentally. In this ground-breaking work, he explores this type of followership and illustrates the various ways it can happen.

David B. Zoogah is Associate Professor of Management at Morgan State University, USA, where he teaches courses in organizational behavior, human resources management, leadership and ethics, and foundations of scientific research at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral level. Dr. Zoogah has won Best Paper Award (Gender, Diversity and Organization Division of the Academy of Management), Best Reviewer (Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management), and Excellence in Research (Morgan State University). He has published over 500 refereed journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Dr. Zoogah received his PhD from The Ohio State University.