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The Role of Followership in Agile Team Leadership Development
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences.
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences.
2024 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Leader and leadership theories have been popular in comparison to followers and followership. Many research studies have focused on the various aspects and skills needed to be an effective leader. On the other hand, followership is an important aspect of the discussion of leadership. There will be no leadership without followers. There are several literature works on the topic of followership. Specific studies have identified various forms of followership and the natural behaviors exhibited by followers. In this paper, the role of effective followership within self-organizing teams is primarily addressed. While performing a systematic review on followership, this study attempts an empirical analysis of the traits of effective followers and how they influence leadership emergence in Agile teams. Agile teams are chosen in specific not only for their wider adoption but them being self-organized. Case study is adopted as the research strategy whereas data is collected through semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis is selected to analyze the interview data. From the interviews of members within the Agile team, four themes of behaviors are found as Autonomous, Adherent, Harmonious, and Stagnant. These findings contribute to the gap in followership behaviors in the Agile team when studying leadership emergence. Team members could identify the followership relationship by applying the themes. The themes of followership behaviors could be the fundamental input for the followership motivation study in the future.

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2024.
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Followership, Effective followers, Leadership emergence, Agile, Self-organizing teams
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Computer Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-242830OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-242830DiVA, id: diva2:1955763
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