Purpose

The overall purpose of this paper is to determine to what extent organizational citizenship behaviors predict followership behaviors within medical organizations in the USA. This is the first part of a two-part article. Part 1 will refine an existing followership instrument. Part 2 will explore the relationship between followership and organizational citizenship.

Design/methodology/approach

Part 1 of this survey-based empirical study used confirmatory factor analysis on an existing instrument followed by exploratory factor analysis on the revised instrument. Part 2 used regression analysis to explore to what extent organizational citizenship behaviors predict followership behaviors.

Findings

The findings of this two-part paper show that organizational citizenship has a significant impact on followership behaviors. Part 1 found that making changes to the followership instrument provides an improved instrument.

Research limitations/implications

Participants in this study work exclusively in the health-care industry; future research should expand to other large organizations that have many followers with few managerial leaders.

Practical implications

As organizational citizenship can be developed, if there is a relationship between organizational citizenship and followership, organizations can provide professional development opportunities for individual followers. Managers and other leaders can learn how to develop organizational citizenship behaviors and thus followership in several ways: onboarding, coaching, mentoring and career development.

Originality/value

In Part 1, the paper contributes an improved measurement for followership. Part 2 demonstrates the impact that organizational citizenship behavior can play in developing high performing followers.

中文翻译：

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模范追随者。第 1 部分：改进仪器

目的

本文的总体目的是确定组织公民行为在多大程度上预测美国医疗组织内的追随行为。这是两部分文章的第一部分。第 1 部分将完善现有的追随工具。第 2 部分将探讨追随者与组织公民之间的关系。

设计/方法/方法

这项基于调查的实证研究的第 1 部分对现有工具进行了验证性因素分析，然后对修订后的工具进行了探索性因素分析。第 2 部分使用回归分析来探讨组织公民行为在多大程度上预测追随行为。

发现

这篇由两部分组成的论文的研究结果表明，组织公民对追随行为有显着影响。第 1 部分发现对跟随工具进行更改可提供改进的工具。

研究限制/影响

本研究的参与者仅在医疗保健行业工作；未来的研究应该扩展到其他拥有大量追随者而管理领导者很少的大型组织。

实际影响

由于组织公民可以发展，如果组织公民和追随者之间存在关系，组织可以为个人追随者提供专业发展机会。经理和其他领导者可以通过多种方式学习如何培养组织公民行为，从而培养追随者：入职、辅导、指导和职业发展。

原创性/价值

在第 1 部分中，本文提供了一种改进的追随者测量方法。第 2 部分展示了组织公民行为对培养高绩效追随者的影响。