How can you define followers. Remember, you can be given subordinates, but you can not be given followers. Leadership and followership are linked concepts, neither of which can be comprehended without understanding the other. Leadership, not power-wielding, is inseparable from the followers needs and goals. Consequently, leadership and followership are best seen as interrelated roles within an organization.
Good leadership enhances followers just as good followership enhances leaders.
In many cases the follower is a potential leaders who chooses not to become active in certain situations. If leadership and followership are seen as interacting roles, the individual is provided choices as to which role to play in different situations and different organizations. It might be said that leadership and followership are arts in which people can become highly skilled. Rapid changes in society and in business and industry have placed leadership and followership in precarious situations. Both the pace and the direction of change may place constraints on the forms that are available for leadership and followership.