En studie i "situationsanpassat följarskap" : att välja att följa en ledare baserat på frivilligt engagemang

Title: A study of “Situational followership”.Level: Final assignment for Bachelor Degree in Business AdministrationAuthor: Lykke SilfwerbrandSupervisor: Jonas KågströmDate: 2011 – JanuaryAim: This study looks at the new concept: “situational followership”. It discusses how followership and leadership are connected and takes the approach of the follower. The study mainly looks into the following questions: · How can situational followership can be described? · What is the most important parameter for a follower? · Does the choice of leader differ according to the situation? · How is situational leadership and situational followership connected?Method: This is a qualitative study with ten respondents. The voluntary engaged respondents are representing two different organizations. In interviews follower-situations are discussed in depth and the respondents also asses their impression of each situation. The analysis of the data takes a qualitative approach to interpret the situations discussed. Result & Conclusions: The results point out that followership is to make a decision to follow a leader in a specific situation. A follower wants to feel safe and secure with the leader and with the situation. The leader must want to lead. Suggestions for future research: This study should be widened with a larger number of respondents in order to verify the result. Other studies that use the perspective of the follower rather than the leader would broaden the understanding of the leader-follower relation. Contribution of the thesis: This study has contributed to understanding how voluntary followers understands their role and their relation to the leader. Key words: Situational leadership, situational followership, Sense Of Coherence, SDT, motivation, qualitative study.