Introduction Followership is one of the most under researched discipline. This is because of the stigma that the societies attach to the term follower. The term followership can be defined as the ability of a person or a group to follow the directions and offer support to a leader for maximization of an organization’s structure (Ellice, 2004). On the other hand, this term has been associated negatively with other terms such as feeble, submission and conformity. Followers have always been looked down upon and the term has attracted hostile images (Goffee & Jones, 2001). Another reason why followership has been understudied is the false impression that leadership is more significant than followership. The belief that excellent followership is basically following instructions to the latter and that efficient accomplishment of task is the product of good leadership does not augment the advantages of the follower role (Goffee & Jones, 2001). Most organizational and management behaviours have been dominated with leadership concept giving little room for the followership idea. Despite of its significance to leadership, most organizations have chosen to ignore followership in most of their discussions (Ellice, 2004). In spite of the entire stigma associated with followership, it is very ironical to note that effective leadership greatly depends on the compliance and approval of the followers (Hanges et al. 2001). Active followership implies that the authority or the leader been approved thus gives authenticity to the direction and vision of the leadership. Without the back up of the followers a leader can never function effectively (Miller et al. 2004). Therefore, a leader can only manage to achieve something with the blessing of the followers. According to Howell and Shamir (2005), transformation in the organization’s environment necessitates in depth examination of followership. The customary hierarchy that exists between leadership and followers have worn out with time as a result of escalating social networks and increasing empowerment of the followers through easy access to information via internet (Nelson, 2001). Employees nowadays have full access to information about the organization and the stakeholders, and therefore leaders have lost their traditional role of being the sole source of information. For the above reason, employees can no longer follow their bosses blindly since they become more informed and sceptical. Majority of the leaders have discovered that empowering their followers with vital knowledge and skills is very important for the success of the organization. These have led to the adoption of concepts such as team building, objective management, and total quality management among others. Nelson (2001) states that institutions that falls short in developing their employees may lose competitiveness with time. Empowered followers including employees of an organization are a very important asset when it comes to value addition (Goffee & Jones, 2001). In the past people feared to use the follower but these rend is changing with time. Nowadays people are becoming more willing to acknowledge the fact that followers are more important in the leadership proce