ACCA Strategic Professional · Strategic Business Leader · Qualities of leadership
The CEO of Harlow Foods, Dev, takes decisions alone and expects the management team to carry them out without question. Managers are rarely consulted and many have become passive, waiting for instructions. In Kelley's followership styles, which style are the managers most likely displaying?
The managers are passive followers. Kelley's passive style shows low initiative and low critical thinking, with people depending on the leader for direction. Dev's solo decision-making and lack of consultation encourage this, whereas conformists actively carry out orders and exemplary followers think critically and act with initiative.
- AExemplary followers
- BAlienated followers
- CPassive followersCorrect
- DConformist followers
Explanation
Kelley describes passive followers as lacking initiative and critical thinking and relying on the leader for direction. Conformists are active but uncritical, while alienated followers are critical but passive. The managers here wait for instructions, which is passive behaviour.
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