Followership Styles and their Relationship with Leadership Styles of Academic Leaders as Perceived by Faculty Members at Universities of Northern Jordan

Abstract: this study aimed at identifying patterns of the followership ‎styles and their relation to the leadership styles of academic ‎leaders as perceived by faculty members in public and private ‎universities in northern jordan. the researchers used the ‎descriptive correlational approach. the kelley’s scale was ‎adopted for the followership styles, and stellar’ leadership scale ‎for leadership styles.the study instruments were administered ‎to a stratified random sample of 304 faculty members ‎‎(yarmouk, just, al-bayt, philadelphia, ajloun private ‎university, jerash private university and irbid private ‎university). the validity and reliability of the study tools were ‎verified. chi-square goodness of fit was used to correlate ‎followers’ observation frequencies of conduct with the expected ‎frequencies, and so it was for leaders’ frequencies conduct.the ‎results showed that the exemplary followership style was the ‎most observed, followed by the pragmatic style, whereas the ‎alienated and the passive style came last. the results showed ‎that the most prevalent leadership style is the empowering style, ‎followed by the democratic, whereas the autocratic came last. ‎study results also showed that there were no statistically ‎significant differences between the styles of leadership and ‎those of followership. ‎