The Indian Army Forces be present to support the models of the formation of India. Indian Army is the main constituent of countrywide strength. It’s most important responsibility is to conserve national awareness and preserve independence, protective reliability and accord of India adjacent to any outside intimidations by anticipation or by incoming conflicts for the nation. It’s another prime responsibility is to lend a hand for government organizations to manage with the ‘proxy war’ and different inner risks and supply help to the civil right at that time, request for the reason. It provides as the eventual apparatus for upholding the unity and the truthfulness of the country in the point of outer risks and interior conflict and turbulence (Chibber, 1985). Leadership is one of the most important factors for the Indian Army to uphold their reputation in the world. Indian Army is the 2nd largest standing army within the globe. Leaders are the individual who can influence the groups, people or individuals to achieve the organisational or individual’s aims, objectives and goals (Smythe & Norton, 2007). To maintain the large standing army in the Indian Army, there are several major, lieutenant general, general, major general to lead there team and permit them to become more effective in their job responsibilities. In this whole paper the leadership style, theory and significance of the leadership in Indian army has been discussed thoroughly.

The modern leadership theory is basically based on the three eras of modern leadership research. The initial theory of leadership was Trait theory. That is initiated in the year 1800. The modern leadership research is based on the three eras which are Trait eras (18000 to mid of 1940s), the Behaviour era (mid of 1940 to 1970s), and last but not the least, Contingency era (early 1960s to present). According to theses leadership theory, the Indian army leaders has maintaining their leadership strategies.

According to the Trait theories, it can be understand that the leaders are born to lead and they have effective and some special characteristics, traits in their personality. According to the Trait theory, it can be stated that the leadership is a natural aspects for a person. In this leadership style it can be said that leader’s character plays a minor role and this is not a dominant factor in the leadership style (Tracy, 2014).  

On the other hand, according to the behavioural theory the leaders can easily access, taught and observed the objectives. In this theory, the behaviours are basically dependent on two categories; one is task based and another one is relationship based. According to the behaviour theory, the leadership style can be described into three types such as: Autocratic leadership style, Democratic leadership style and laissez faire leadership style (Burns, 1978).  According to this theory, it can be analyse that instead of analysing the effective leader this behavioural approach highlighted that what an effective leader can do in his job role. Apart from the trait theory, this behavioural theory has some advantages. The most important advantages of this theory are it can be observed more objective based rather than traits (Singh, 2005).

To get the proper knowledge about the values and ethics in the leadership within the Indian Army, the researcher has done several researches and obtains some views and response from the former and present Indian Army team members.  According to Nixon  Fernando, who  has several times  education  knowledge  at  the  impressive  National  Defence  Academy, while he has appointed for lecturer  post for  out  the confronts  in  leadership  expansion  for  the  Indian  army, captivating  a  message  on Indian  armed  heads  concerning on information  of  indiscretions,  amplified  bribery, dishonesty  and  in addition  case  of  fight among the team member and the executives (Safire & Safir, 1990).

 This is endorsed usually to deprivation of worth in civilization; nevertheless the touch of doubt also directs at the imperfections within the leadership improvement processes in the Indian Army. Fairly of course, at that time,  leadership is alleged  problems  as well  happen  regarding  the  procedures  of  hiring  and  preparation  of  the  executives. Leadership can be defined as a subject of trustworthiness, intelligence, courage and humanness. To maintain the values and the ethics of an organisation like Indian Army, leadership qualities of the leaders plays very significant role to manage the team members (Gill, 2006). Due to the vast number of team, the leaders need to adopt effective leadership qualities and capabilities in their job role. The leadership styles of the leaders need to obtain according to the proper situation basis. Sometimes the leaders of Indian army need to take some decision within the instant moment at that time the leaders focuses on the autocratic leadership style and they mainly depends on the objective oriented leadership qualities.

Leadership maintain the organisational culture by maintaining the values, beliefs and ethics within the organisation. In Indian army the leaders needs to focus on the moral principle of the organisation and they needs to adopt effective leadership style to uphold the performance and achieve the organisational objectives. To get the positive outcomes in the leadership, the leaders of the Indian army requires providing effective motivational plan in their job role. To motivate the team member in the army squad, the leaders of the team needs to offer effective reward management style for their team members to get effective outcomes in their performance (Giuliani & Kurson, 2002). Discipline management is one of the most important elements in the Indian army. To motivate the team members effectively, the leaders of the Indian army interact with the team and communicate with them in a superior manner to understand their requirements and they also encourage them to perform well for the country. By motivating the team members in the Indian army, the leaders can aware them about the organisational core values and the prime objectives of the organisation. By giving proper awareness about the organisational objectives, values and principles, the leaders can minimize the internal conflict within the Indian army squad which can be benefited for the leaders to promote new strategies and implement some plan in their job role for greater adoption of the people (Lawler, 2005).  

On the other hand, to develop the effective leadership style and approach in the Indian army according to the different views from different gems of Indian Army has given some feedback. Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (retired) also highlighted some confronts of Human Resource Management within the Indian Army and regarded it like tremendously imperative matter for the reason that its potency has for eternity been its warrior. The Lt Gen also stated that organization does not change, its individuals act; stages and groups do not protect the state, individuals do. For changing socio economic norms causes, Nitin A Gokhale stated on this matter the Impact on Indian army and demonstrated ‘Why is executive–team member connection deteriorating in the Indian Army?’ also emphasized the leadership subject of Indian army (Roy, 2012).

On the matter of Ethics  and  Military,  S.R.R. Aiyengar correctly  emphasized  the  mistake  processions  in  Ethical behaviour which can be affect  the armed  Leadership as  loyalty pattern, make   for   achievement, thing   with   icon, totalitarianism against individual instance, mainstream have the emotion that unprincipled executives are building to senior positions,  faith  of  endings mitigating  the  indicates,  self-centred,  endorsement adjusted performance, disrespect for main beliefs, achievement of the most unimportant of assignment with zero tolerances, and abnormality in personal performance (Leadership, 1993).

International approach adoption is one of the most effective ways in the leadership style for a leader. Before adopting an effectual leadership style within the organisation, the leaders of the team needs to aware about the role of level, age, and size of the organisation (Mulroy, 1993).  In most of the European country, the leaders reflects more democratic leadership style for making motivated and satisfied the worker or the team members. To get effective outcomes in their job role, the Indian Army leaders needs to focus on this development and transformation in their leadership (Leitch & Stead, 2016). To attract more youth generation towards the Indian army, the leaders often adopts more motivational and influencing plans. 

By the help of effective sustainable actions in the job role, the nation can mitigate strive in their difficult situation. Involving a regulatory surrounding in the organisation can enhance the performance for the individuals and the team can perform well in the global platform.

From the above study it can be concluded that, leadership plays a pivotal role in every organisation, if that is a small scale organisation or a whole nation’s army management. To manage the team members within an organisation, the leaders needs to promote them up and by the help of effective communication process and proper reward management style, they can satisfy the team member to enhance their job performance.

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