Digital Natives: Shaping the Future of Leadership-Followership Dyad Worldwide
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Chapter description: Generation Z (GenZ), the most ethnically diverse, connected, and technologically sophisticated generation, enters the global workforce and affects its dynamics in profound ways. Recent studies reveal that GenZs (members of Generation Z) are more realistic, career-minded, and entrepreneurial than previous generations. They are globally and environmentally aware, concerned about social justice, and want their ideas to be heard and valued. GenZs rely on technology to access and share information, and to increase their task effectiveness, yet prefer in-person communication and high-intensity relationships/mentorship at work. Their unique characteristics affect the ways they are influenced, motivated, and inspired by their leaders and how they develop as future leaders. This chapter examines how, in the digital age, the characteristics of GenZs are shaping the future of the leadership-followership dyad worldwide, potentially steering the values and views on leadership and followership in North-West and South-East towards a common denominator.
Book description: This handbook integrates the best leadership and followership theories and practices between the Global North-West (countries of Western individualistic cultures in Europe, North America, Australia and Oceana) and the Global South-East (countries of Eastern collectivistic cultures in Asia, Africa, South America, and South-East Asian and Oceana). There is a need to bring the Global North-West and the Global South-East together to address global challenges such as the climate change, global hunger and poverty, domestic and international terrorism, social justice, gender inequality, and domestic and global abuse of human and natural resources. This innovative volume proposes that the democratic leadership of the Global North-West and the human-centered followership of the Global South-East can transform the world if leadership and followership values, education, and practices are integrated. It utilizes findings from positive psychology, social psychology, organizational behavior, and world religions and contemplative wisdom traditions to highlight the case for global leadership and followership.
ISBN
3-031-21544-3
Publication Date
2023
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
City
Cham, Switzerland
Keywords
Leadership-followership exchange, East-West exchange, Leadership theory, Followership theory, Leadership in the Global North-West, Leadership in the Global South-East, Leadership models, Leadership-followership paradigm
Disciplines
Leadership Studies
Recommended Citation
Goryunova, Elizabeth PhD and Jenkins, Daniel M. PhD, "Digital Natives: Shaping the Future of Leadership-Followership Dyad Worldwide" (2023). Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Books. 716.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/716
