Followership styles and their relationship with leadership styles of academic leaders as perceived by faculty members at universities of northern Jordan

Abstract EN

This study aimed at identifying patterns of the followership styles and their relation to the leadership styles of academic leaders as perceived by faculty members in public and private universities in northern Jordan.

The researchers used the descriptive correlational approach.

The Kelley’s scale was adopted for the followership styles, and Stellar’ leadership scale for leadership styles.The study instruments were administered to a stratified random sample of 304 faculty members (Yarmouk, JUST, Al-Bayt, Philadelphia, Ajloun Private University, Jerash Private University and Irbid Private University).

The validity and reliability of the study tools were verified.

Chi-Square Goodness of Fit was used to correlate followers’ observation frequencies of conduct with the expected frequencies, and so it was for leaders’ frequencies conduct.The results showed that the exemplary followership style was the most observed, followed by the pragmatic style, whereas the alienated and the passive style came last.

The results showed that the most prevalent leadership style is the empowering style, followed by the democratic, whereas the autocratic came last.

Study results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the styles of leadership and those of followership.