Organizational Support for Followership Skills Development in Nigeria

December 3, 2025

Organizational Support for Followership Skills Development in Nigeria

Seth Osehahumen Akhilele | 2020

Abstract

The phenomenological research examined organizational support for followership skills development in Nigeria. The study was to reveal the impact of organizational support for followership skills development in Nigeria. The study sought to determine how organizational efforts or behavior assisted in followership skills development. The study’s significance resides in the organization’s ability to develop competencies that will help them function as followers. Organizational support is perceived to have a negative impact on followership skills development in some selected federal agencies in Nigeria. Nguyen and Seung-Wan’s (2018) findings of organizational support for followership behavior were the theoretical foundation for the study. Their study revealed that perceived organizational support’s is crucial to influence followers’ behaviors in organizations. There was also a review of related materials on organizational support, followership skills development, the design method, the data collection method, and coding for the data analysis method for the study. The study involved the use of an in-depth interview method for data collection. The purposeful sampling research required 12 HR heads who worked in the 12 selected federal agencies. The experiences obtained from this research conformed to theories of in-depth phenomenological studies (Patton, 2015). The study results indicated that followers do not receive the necessary support for followership skills development from the selected federal agencies in Nigeria. The study also revealed 20 new followership skills. Some of the followership skills include (a) analytical skills, (b) teachability skills, (c) listening skills, (d) humility skills, and 16 others. Also presented are research and practitioner reflections, recommendations for future research, and limitations.

Keywords: organizational support, followership skills

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