Purpose

In today’s rapidly changing workforce environment, organizations seek ways to increase productivity to remain competitive. The central human capital strategy is to attract the best talent and increase individual and team productivity to reach its strategic goals. Human Resources (HR) Professionals are required to attract, retain, train and develop employees to exhibit critical citizenship behaviours. The purpose of this paper is to present organizational-based research on why exemplary followers are considered valuable, as well as contribute to the understanding and discourse of the important role “exemplary followers” have for organizations. Extant followership constructs will be linked to key HR processes to illustrate how organizations can select, develop and retain “exemplary followership” to safeguard organizational sustainability.

Design/methodology/approach

A brief overview of HR systems and processes to enhance exemplary followership in employees is presented for training and development purposes. A range of research and practitioner papers are reviewed with the aim of illustrating the importance of and the key constructs for exemplary followership and to suggest practical applications for its development within organizations’ HR processes.

Findings

By understanding the importance and implications of exemplary followership development, the author will suggest practical HR tools that may be adopted, whole or in part, thus improving organizational sustainability.

Practical implications

Providing ways for HR to increase exemplary followership through learning and growth might help to expand practical followership development programmes in organizations at all levels.

Originality/value

This paper has drawn on limited followership organizational performance research done in the USA and Ghana and overall research in this area. It has discussed the Followership Continuum Model as a prescriptive tool for organizations to use. All Followership research has simply provided foundational constructs to be used in the original work the author developed for increasing exemplary followership in organizations through HR processes. There is no research like this to the author’s knowledge.

中文翻译：

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在组织中增加模范追随者的案例

目的

在当今快速变化的劳动力环境中，组织寻求提高生产力以保持竞争力的方法。核心人力资本战略是吸引最优秀的人才并提高个人和团队的生产力，以实现其战略目标。人力资源 (HR) 专业人员需要吸引、留住、培训和培养员工以表现出重要的公民行为。本文的目的是提出基于组织的研究，探讨为什么模范追随者被认为是有价值的，并有助于理解和论述“模范追随者”对组织的重要作用。现有的追随者结构将与关键的人力资源流程相关联，以说明组织如何选择、发展和保留“模范追随者”以保障组织的可持续性。

设计/方法/方法

出于培训和发展目的，简要概述了人力资源系统和流程，以提高员工的模范追随力。审查了一系列研究和从业者论文，目的是说明模范追随者的重要性和关键结构，并建议其在组织人力资源流程中的实际应用。

发现

通过了解模范追随者发展的重要性和影响，作者将建议可以全部或部分采用的实用人力资源工具，从而提高组织的可持续性。

实际影响

为 HR 提供通过学习和成长来增加模范追随者的方法可能有助于在各级组织中扩展实用的追随者发展计划。

原创性/价值

本文借鉴了在美国和加纳进行的有限的追随者组织绩效研究以及该领域的整体研究。它讨论了作为组织使用的规范工具的追随连续体模型。所有追随者研究只是提供了基础结构，可用于作者开发的原始工作中，以通过人力资源流程增加组织中的模范追随者。就作者所知，没有这样的研究。