Beyond Leadership to Followership

About the Book

A brief summary of management and leadership following a scenario that aids in understanding the forces and concepts involved in being a leader, regardless of the present placement with the organizational hierarchy, from a perspective of a systems approach. With learning as the core, the author takes us on a brief and concise journey of organizational theory and practice, leadership. teams, followership, mentorship, stewardship, responsibilities of a protege, and the art of supervision on the way to management. Understanding the concepts is the goal, and a no-nonsense approach with references to additional reading is provided.

About the Author

Dr. Seteroff is retired as President of Management & Logistics Assoc., Inc. of Poulsbo, Washington and continues involvement with portions of the business in a part time and consulting capacity. He has earned a Doctor of Business Administration (Management) degree from Nova Southeastern University in 1997. His dissertation was a study of voluntary employee turnover among professional engineers. He is an adjunct professor for the Bangor Academic Center of Chapman University, in economics, organizational leadership, and strategic management and serves as practitioner faculty for the University of Phoenix both online and at the Washington Campus. He is also an adjunct instructor for City University in economics, business, and project management. He served as the General Chairman of the International Logistics Conference in 1998 and as the Coordinating Chairman of the Advanced Technology Steering Group from 1991 to 1998. He also served as a member of the collaborative research committee in the Practitioner Series of the Academy of Management between 1998 and 2000. Research interests remain in voluntary employee turnover among highly skilled professionals, and include the effects of advanced technology implementation on the strategic posture of high performance organizations.