Title: Follower role orientation and its interaction with organisational climate in generating leader outcomes

Authors: Gavriel Meirovich; Ashita Goswami

Addresses: Bertolon School of Business, Salem State University, 252 Lafayette Street, 01970, Salem MA, USA ' Korn Ferry Institute, 125 Summer Street, 02110, Boston MA, USA

Abstract: Despite growing recognition of the critical part of followers in leadership process, there is a lack of empirical examination of followership theory. The current study investigates relationships between types of follower role orientation and their interaction with organisational climate in generating leader results. Using data collected through MTurk platform from 352 respondents in USA, correlational and factor analysis demonstrate that co-production role orientation was positively related to participative climate and negatively related to hierarchical climate, while the opposite associations held for passive role orientation. One of the central findings of the study is that participative organisational climate moderated the relationship between co-production follower orientation and leader effectiveness. The implication is that the combination of co-production orientation and participative climate generated the highest level of leader outcomes. Anti-authoritarian role orientation, paradoxically, was found to be positively related to co-production role orientation and to participative climate and not to affect leader effectiveness adversely.

Keywords: follower role orientation; co-production orientation; passive orientation; anti-authoritarian orientation; organisational climate; leader effectiveness.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWOE.2024.140686

International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 2024 Vol.15 No.3, pp.243 - 260

Received: 06 Dec 2022
Accepted: 06 Oct 2023
Published online: 30 Aug 2024 *

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