My experience is that I always try to stay in touch with everybody. I try to make sure that I am available if they have questions. I try to make sure training is available. If there is training that needs to be done, sometimes doing one-on-one training or doing group training. Just taking in their ideas, putting it into motion and sometimes it works and sometimes it don’t. Participant M1 Other factors, um, I think the work history is a big one, but education is another one. You can always, at least I know from the people that I have hired and people who are no longer with the company—education has been a big one and it is not that they went to college or graduated, it is that, you know, they weren’t high school dropouts. They were to stick through high school and get a degree. Somebody who is persistent with what they sign on to do and they are not, I guess, quitters. Participant F4 answered, I just feel like really just have to find a good fit. Like I said, I have worked for this company for years and I have seen a lot of movement in the company to different hotels and I have seen a lot of movement back to original places and so forth because it is a better fit with your leaders and followers. The remaining participants identified the following as what they perceive to be additional relevant factors affecting followership in their organization: distance from manager, perception of the leader, ambition, organizational culture, upbringing, interpersonal skills,
My experience is that I always try to stay in touch with everybody. I try to make sure that I am available if they have questions. I try to make sure training is available. If there is training that needs to be done, sometimes doing one-on-one training or doing group training. Just taking in their ideas, putting it into motion and sometimes it works and sometimes it don’t. Participant M1 Other factors, um, I think the work history is a big one, but education is another one. You can always, at least I know from the people that I have hired and people who are no longer with the company—education has been a big one and it is not that they went to college or graduated, it is that, you know, they weren’t high school dropouts. They were to stick through high school and get a degree. Somebody who is persistent with what they sign on to do and they are not, I guess, quitters. Participant F4 answered, I just feel like really just have to find a good fit. Like I said, I have worked for this company for years and I have seen a lot of movement in the company to different hotels and I have seen a lot of movement back to original places and so forth because it is a better fit with your leaders and followers. The remaining participants identified the following as what they perceive to be additional relevant factors affecting followership in their organization: distance from manager, perception of the leader, ambition, organizational culture, upbringing, interpersonal skills,
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