An Impact Assessment of Followership Behaviour on Job Satisfaction and Employee Engagement A Case Study of Telecommunication Company

Abstract

Although effective followership is critical for organizational performance, because of newlineromance for leadership, management teaching and research is predominantly focused on newlineleadership, while little attention has been paid to followership. Prevailing pandemic newlinesituation and its impact on workplaces causing visible shift in power dynamics between newlineleader and follower, further necessitates reversing the lenses and refocus on both newlineresearch as well as training and development on followership. Emerging literature on newlineleadership followership suggest that effective followers and effective leaders share newlinemany of the same characteristics and that cultivating followership skill is a prerequisite newlinefor effective leadership. Employees have to simultaneously play the roles of follower and newlineleader because of the bureaucratic and hierarchical nature of large organizations. newlineIf followership is to be established as an independent study area in management, newlineempirical research supporting followership theories is required. While limited studies newlinehave been done utilizing certain aspects of the theories, the mainstream literature still newlinelacks sufficient evidence to support the use of followership styles within an newlineorganizational setting to large extent. Many eminent researchers in the followership field newlinehave called for new empirical research which can substantiate and provide evidence of newlinethe effect of followership on organizationally significant variables such as job newlinesatisfaction, employee engagement along with job performance in different cultures, newlinecountries and sectors. Therefore for current study, two organizationally important newlineemployees outcomes e.g. job satisfaction and employee engagement has been chosen as newlinedependent variables. newlineThe present study, An Impact Assessment of Followership Behaviour on Job newlineSatisfaction and Employee Engagement: A Case Study of Telecommunication newlineCompany is designed to examine followership styles prevalent in studied organization newlineand their relationship with job satisfaction and employee engagement.