• Workers sharing a leader`s goals and values are more motivated.
• The number of followers reporting to a leader can have significant implications.
• Follower`s trust in the leader.
• Follower`s confidence or lack thereof in leader`s interest in their well being.
• The leader-follower relationship which is in a period of dynamic change.
• Increased pressure to function with reduced resources.
• Trend toward greater power sharing and decentralized authority in organizations.
• Increase in complex problems and rapid changes.
• Followers can become much more proactive in their stance toward organizational problems.
• Followers can become better skilled at `influencing upward,` flexible and open to opportunities.

Listen to the video above and study the readings given on this page. Focusing on a named institution, how do followers influence leaders?

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