My part in the project "Followership" is to write about " When Leaders Become Followers?" I would like this paper to be specifically about HOW and scholarly research should be done and minimum of 3 -4 sources with APA format with citation and reference page.

I need to know the sources before the work is started, if possible.

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When Leaders Become Followers

The concept of leadership has always been widely accepted to incorporate enterprise performance and management. However, followership has also been a frequent trait expressed by leaders in the corporate world. According to Epitropaki, Kark, Mainemelis & Lord (2017), followership refers to a set of skills which are used to complete leadership which is integral to the administrative process. It is important to note that if leadership is an important component that contributes to corporate performance, it must have a relationship with followership. Therefore, leaders should be an excellent follower to complement other corporate functions. The fact that everybody in an organization can express both leadership and followership depending on the circumstances illustrates the paradox of corporate followership. The paper will explore how a leader becomes a follower through judgment, ego management, loyalty and competency improvement.

Leaders must take the direction of a follower by undertaking the underlying obligations to the business. Consequently, it ensures that the managerial direction approach upholds ethics and output performance. The principle of judgment in followership enables a leader to know the differences between a directive and how to handle subordinates if they fail to adhere to or honor their directives. For instance, a leader may delegate a task which does not belong to an employee. Subsequently, the employee may opt not to undertake the task because they lack the skill or knowledge. Carsten (2017) posits that good followers are great workers as they contribute to the corporate output performance and organization. Thus, leaders use good judgment as followers to reason with employees in such situations thereby making them followers rather than leaders.

Secondly, leaders become followers through the management of their egos during work. Ego is a term used when referring to an individuals sense of self-importance or esteem. It is a mental concept which relates to the conscious and unconscious to facilitate personal identity. In every organization, people have differing egos as every individual is unique. A persons ego is responsible for the way an individual interacts and associates with other people in society. Likewise, a leaders ego affects the relationship between leaders and their followers.