4.2.3—Leaders and followers

4.2.3 Leaders and followers.

• Kouzes and Posner's Leadership Practices Inventory including five practices.
• Kelley's (1988) followership including definition of followership, two dimensions and five followership styles.
• Relevant issues and debates and methodology for this topic include: application to everyday life, cultural differences, idiographic versus nomothetic, self-reports, psychometrics.

This matters because —leaders and followers determines what can be inferred or chosen; begin with the stated conditions and keep the conclusion tied to the evidence.

Example: apply —leaders and followers to one small, clearly defined case, show the key step or comparison, and explain the result in words.

Boundary: —Leaders and followers is not a universal recommendation. Check the syllabus scope, assumptions, units and the limits of the evidence before generalising.