Building a Leader-Follower Culture: The Nexus Between Transformational Leadership and Effective Followership Behaviors (original) (raw)

In this paper, we proposed four hypotheses that predicted positive relationships between transformational leadership behaviors and effective followership behaviors. We collected data from 100 middle managers across the United States. Multiple regression results showed significant positive relationships between transformational leadership behaviors and effective followership behaviors, after we had controlled for age, gender, race, educational level, tenure with current organization, and tenure with current supervisor. However, the transformational leadership behavior of Idealized Influence was not significantly related to the effective followership behavior of Building Trust, after controlling for demographics. The findings have important implications for leaders, followers, leadership educators, organizations, and researchers.