Leaders and Followers: A Literature Review on Curiosity and its Impact

INDIVIDUAL ESSAY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Theme1: Curiosity.......................................................................................................................3
Theme 2: Leaders and Followers.................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Literature review is basically a survey of specific topic or research questions related to
scholars. It is critical analysis of any particular topics (Oztemeland and Gursev, 2020). A leader
is one who have quality to inspire the people and follower are those people who are doing their
work as prescribed way. The curiosity is a desire of people to know regarding some topic. This
report will cover literature review on the leaders & followers and curiosity and in order to extract
the information related on topic.
MAIN BODY
Theme1: Curiosity
According to Pathak, Agrawal, (2017), curiosity is a strong desire to know or learn
something. It is a key ingredient of learning. This capability leads towards the knowledge but
also the ability to make contacts among various portions of information. Curiosity is highly
beneficial towards the organization as it contributes towards fewer decision-making errors, build
more innovative and positive changes in creative and non-creative jobs, reduction of group
conflict and promotes open communication and better and effective team efforts.
However, on a contrary note Wade, (2019) contradicts that being curious at workplace
might worsen the situations as well as relationship with others. If curiosity arises, making and
executing decisions will slow down. If there are too many questions to be asked in the company,
it might be possible that it will not give that much and useful information. Due to these reasons,
leaders might limit their employees to explore their interest in the workplace.
Kobayashi, Ravaioli, (2019) explained in their study that curiosity puts the brain in a state
that allows it to learn more things and remember unrelated information in complete manner. It
helps the employees of the organization to learn innovative and new things towards their better
achievements in life. Curiosity makes learning a more rewarding experience for employees and it
helps in creation of positive relationship between the organization and employees.
However, Dossinger, (2019) argued that though curiosity is important in life but being
too curious or asking too many questions generates noisiness in the company and people refer
them as annoying personality instead of intelligent. Curiosity is the power of inquiring mind to
lead towards making decisions that ultimately resulting in painful and unpleasant outcomes.
Oudeyer, (2018) reflects in their study that there are various strategies to promote
curiosity at the workplace which effects positively the employees of the organization. Curiosity