It is widely recognized in India and abroad that much wisdom lies in the ancient Indian psycho-philosophical approach even with regard to modem management concepts. Team building is one such concept for which we can draw relevant thoughts for modem day application.
Leadership has been widely researched and analyzed, but the aspect of followership has received comparatively scant attention. Training, subordinate development and superior-subordinate relations are terms used extensively in organizations today when discussing the skill and competency development of subordinates. Skills and competencies are no doubt very important aspects which contribute to both productivity and organizational effectiveness, but another important factor which plays an all encompassing role is the need for all the members to understand and adhere to a set of desirable characteristics in their working relationship with each other. These characteristics are being termed as followership quantities. The development of good followership qualities in people will in effect be similar to watering the tree at the roots and thus ensuring that it is best assimilated for growth. The tree too, becomes, stronger and more productive.
These qualities can be considered under two separate domains namely:
- Working relationship between peers and
- Factors of good follower ships
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