Typology of Followership Theories

The concept of followership requires the existance of leadership. In another word, these two are correlative. First the subject of followership is new to management literature; second in academic circles of the country it has not received mutch attention. kelly (1988); chalf (1955) were among first who introduced the debates of followership independent of leadership and claimed that leadership can no longer be studied without followers or by giving very little role to them. Therefore the purpose of this research is to study and understand and compare followership models in management fields and organization leadership. More precisely the purpose of this article is to study the dimensions and charactristics of followership in related theories and furthermore to reach to an optimised model and introduced it to organizations managers and leaders and management researchers. In our country little attention is given to followership in management and leadership literatures. The question of this research is whether the same condition prevails elsewhere or not. The results of general review of researcher, on the subject of followership indicated that since past decades till now many researchers have dealt with this subject. Today attention given to followership is not less than leadership. This article has applied paradigm outlook to review theories related to followership and finally by introducing a model of followership; it was analyzed and compared.