Journals / Turkish Studies - Economics, Finance, Politics / 2020 / Cilt: 15 - Sayı: 4

Followership in Business Through the Eyes of Leaders:A Phenomology Study on Typology Determination

İş Dünyasında Liderlerin Gözüyle Takipçiler:Tipoloji Belirleme Üzerine Bir Olgubilim Araştırması

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The findings were discussed in the relevant literature and recommendations were made to the business world and managers.

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Objective & Hypothesis:New trends in the business world require adaptation to new trends shaping the new distribution of power within the organization and a better understanding of followers.
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Key Findings & Data:The study group of the research consists of 27 executives, working in private companies operating in Istanbul including four specialists, nine lower-level, 10 mid-level and four top-level managers.
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Conclusion & Impact:The findings were discussed in the relevant literature and recommendations were made to the business world and managers.
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New trends in the business world require adaptation to new trends shaping the new distribution of power within the organization and a better understanding of followers. This research was conducted to understand the followership. Understanding followers will contribute to understanding both the majority of the personnel in the organization and its leadership behavior. The purpose of the research is to understand the phenomenon of followershipin the business world.The main problematic of the research is to understand how leaders see their followers in the business world, what type of followers they desireand how their relations with their followers. In thisresearch, the followers, who were briefly defined as the other side of the coin, were considered from point of view of leaders. The study group of the research consists of 27 executives, working in private companies operating in Istanbul including four specialists, nine lower-level, 10 mid-level and four top-level managers. Since the data were collected in April-May2019, the ethics committee approvalwas not obtained.In the research, the qualitative design was used, the data were collected through semi-structured interviews, the collected data were analyzed using the content analysis method using the Nvivo 11 program. As a result of the analysis; three themes were formed: follower typologies, leader-follower relationship and follower demography relationship. It has been determined that the leaders define followerswith three typologies as active follower, passive follower and conditional follower. Again, within the scope of the leader-follower relationship, it has been observed that leaders concentrate on control and reward mechanisms in their relations with theirsubordinates, and generation difference and gender are demographic variables that affect the leader-follower relationship. The findings were discussed in the relevant literature and recommendations were made to the business world and managers.

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İş dünyasındaki yeni trendler,örgüt içinde yeni güç dağılımını şekillendiren yeni eğilimlere uyum sağlamayı ve takipçileri daha iyi anlamayı gerektirir. Takipçileri anlamak hem örgütüoluşturan çoğunluğu hem de lider davranışlarını anlamaya katkı sağlar. Araştırmanın amacı, işdünyasında takipçilik olgusunu anlamaktır. Araştırmanın ana sorunsalı iş dünyasında liderlerin takipçilerini nasıl gördüklerini, nasıl bir takipçi tipi istediklerini ve takipçileriyle ilişkilerini sorgulamaktır. Araştırmada özetle madalyonun diğer yüzü diye tanımlanan takipçilere liderler gözüyle bakılmıştır. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu İstanbul’da faaliyet gösteren özel şirketlerde çalışan dört uzman, dokuz alt düzey, 10 orta düzey, dört üst düzey olmak üzere toplam 27 yönetici oluşturmaktadır. Veriler 2019 yılı Nisan-Mayıs aylarında toplandığından etik kurul izni alınmamıştır. Araştırmada nitel desenlerden olgubilim kullanılmış, veriler yarı yapılandırılmış mülakat yoluyla toplanmış, toplanan veriler içerik analizi yöntemi ile Nvivo 11 programı kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Analiz neticesinde; takipçi tipolojileri, lider-takipçi ilişkisi ve takipçi demografi ilişkisi olmak üzere üç tema oluşmuştur. Liderlerin astlarını aktiftakipçi,pasif takipçi ve koşullu takipçi olmak üzere üç tipolojiyle tanımladığı saptanmıştır. Yine lider-takipçi ilişkisi kapsamında liderlerin astlarıyla ilişkilerinde kontrol ve ödül mekanizmalarına ağırlık verdikleri, ayrıca kuşak farklılığınınve cinsiyetin lider-takipçi ilişkisinietkileyen demografik değişkenler olduğu görülmüştür. Bulgular ilgili yazınla tartışılmış ve iş dünyasına ve yöneticilere öneriler sunulmuştur.

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YAŞAR, O. (2020). Followership in Business Through the Eyes of Leaders:A Phenomology Study on Typology Determination. Turkish Studies - Economics, Finance, Politics, Cilt: 15 - Sayı: 4, 2529–2546. https://ajindex.com/articles/213755

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