The aim of the study is to determine the preferred leadership and followership styles, as well as the statistical significance of differences between those preferences among individuals employed in both state and privately owned companies in Serbia and Macedonia. Leadership and followership are important for the efficient functioning of all organizations. Leadership and followership issues are particularly important in transition countries, such as Serbia and Macedonia, where directors general of organizations are no longer appointed politically but are leaders selected according to their capacities. Nationality and type of the organization ownership, the relation between gender and position occupied by an individual within a business organization (a manager, an employee), as well as the preferred style of leadership and followership, have been analyzed. The study was carried out on the sample of 172 participants from Serbia and Macedonia. The data were collected by means of the Personal Questionnaire for Followership Styles designed by Robert E. Kelley (1998), and Fiedler’s LPC scale (Least Preferred Coworker, 1984) which was used to evaluate the preferred leadership style. The results indicate that there is no difference in the preferred leadership styles in relation to gender, nationality or positions occupied by the company employees, but there is a difference between the employees who are in the state- or in the privately-owned companies. The participants working in state owned companies prefer a permissive leadership style, i.e. relationship-oriented. The results show that most of the employees in both state- and privately-owned business organizations prefer an active followership, with statistically significant differences compared to the other followership styles. No relationship was found between gender, nationality, type of organization ownership and position occupied by the individual within a business organization, for the preferred followership style.

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塞尔维亚和马其顿的国有和私有企业员工的偏爱领导和追随者风格

这项研究的目的是确定首选的领导和追随者风格，以及塞尔维亚和马其顿的国有和私营公司所雇用的个人之间的偏好之间的差异的统计意义。领导和追随者对于所有组织的有效运作至关重要。领导和追随者问题在塞尔维亚和马其顿等转型国家尤为重要，这些国家的组织干事不再从政治上任命，而是根据其能力选拔的领导人。组织的国籍和所有权类型，业务组织中的个人（经理，雇员）所占据的性别与职位之间的关系，以及领导和追随者的首选样式，已经分析过了。这项研究是对来自塞尔维亚和马其顿的172名参与者进行的。数据是通过Robert E. Kelley（1998）设计的追随者风格个人调查表和Fiedler的LPC量表（Least Preferred Coworker，1984）收集的，该量表用于评估偏好的领导风格。结果表明，在公司员工所选择的性别，国籍或职位方面，首选的领导风格没有差异，但是在国有或私营公司中的员工之间存在差异。在国有公司工作的参与者更喜欢宽松的领导风格，即面向关系。结果表明，国有和私营商业组织中的大多数员工都喜欢积极的追随者，与其他追随者风格相比，统计学上存在显着差异。对于首选的追随者风格，在性别，国籍，组织所有权类型和个人在企业组织中所担任的职位之间没有发现任何关系。