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What Is Toxic Followership?
Author(s) -
Thomas Ted A.,
Gentzler Kevin,
Salvatorelli Robert
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of leadership studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1935-262X
pISSN - 1935-2611
DOI - 10.1002/jls.21496
Subject(s) - followership , typology , harm , subject (documents) , sociology , psychology , political science , public relations , social psychology , computer science , library science , anthropology
There has been some discussion on the subject of toxic followership, but it is as yet ill‐defined and deserves further evaluation and study. The current paper examines toxic followership using Kelley's typology of followers and provides potential methods of mitigating toxic followership. Just as toxic leaders harm organizations, so too can toxic followers. They both can cause good people to leave an organization, and put the organization's survival at risk.