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The romance of leadership which is the over-attribution of responsibility for organizational performance to leaders is critical for sustaining followership and contributing to individuals’ responsiveness to goals of an organization. This study aims at clarifying the romance of leadership is the antecedent of independent critical thinking and active engagement which are two dimensions of followership behaviors; at looking into how followership exert influences on organizational efficacy such as job commitment, and job satisfaction; at examining how the romance of leadership affects followership behavior in accordance with the perception of organizational identification. The sample took up the employees belonging to domestic firms that comprise manufacturing, banking and IT sectors. Following are the results from multiple regression and hierarchical regression analyses. Firstly, romance of leadership came up with statistically significant in relation with followership: The higher romancing leadership, the same is true with independent critical thinking of the followers and with active engagement. Secondly, after having looked into how followership correlates with organizational effectiveness, the research hypotheses were partially supported. As for job commitment and job satisfaction, active engagement achieved statistical significance. Thirdly, the moderating effect of organizational identification on the relationship between of romance of leadership and followers’ independent critical thinking was statistically significant. It is proved that the strength of the relationship tunes with followers’ perception level of organizational identification: It is confirmed that organizational identification is the very important variable as for followership. This study implies how followership is pertinent in affecting organizational efficacy and over-attributions to the leader(romance of leadership) as the antecedent of followership also matters.

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