追随力是指追随者在追随领导者的过程中,表现出来的追随特质,包括工作能力、工作态度、个人品德和人际技能等方面。按照研究内容的差异,可将追随力的研究划分成三个阶段:以领导为中心的领导理论对追随力的研究阶段,以追随者为中心的领导理论对追随力的研究阶段,以及以追随力为中心的追随理论研究阶段。国外现有的研究成果包括追随者的分类,追随者的心理建构,追随类型与领导类型的整合等。国内的研究多是以领导者为中心,对追随者进行了一些分析。未来的研究有必要加强对追随研究工具、追随与个体特质、追随与领导风格和组织特征的匹配等问题的探讨。
Followership refers to the characteristics of followers,including their working capability,work-related attitude,and personal relationship skills.There are three issues of followership research according to different contents,namely leader-focus leadership theory,follower-focus leadership theory and followership theory.Previous oversea literatures provide classifications of follower,follower's psychological construct,and integration of followership and leadership.Meanwhile,most of Chinese studies address analysis of followers which is concentrated on leaders.It will be necessary that the researchers emphasis other issues,such as analysis tool,relationship between followership and personal characteristics,besides which,matching among followership,leadership style and organization characteristic in future.