India is one of the developing countries, a major wicked problem noticed is ‘Terrorism’. It is an issue for which government, political leaders, and other organization of India such as Raw and CBI works constantly. Terrorism is a vital threat to residents of India, where Ethno-nationalist, Narco-terrorism, left-wing terrorism, and religious terrorism are some of the most founded forms of terrorism in India. Terrorism is threatened use or systematic use of violence to frighten a government or population for political, or ideological or religious goals. Jammu and Kashmir, south-central India, east-central India, and Seven sister states are regions with maximum terrorist activities for the long term. According to the United States state department, in India terror attack occurred in 2012 has caused 231 deaths compared to 1,098 deaths caused by terrorism worldwide (Oberoi, 2017).
There are leaders who are responsible for the protection of the country from terrorism, and that is why various leadership issue could be the reason for the increase in terrorism in India. Considering this wicked problem, leadership issues and its application will be discussed in the essay. Moreover, to resolve the terrorism issue in India, an appropriate leadership framework will be framed. India splits terrorism into four main groups:
Leadership issues in India due to which terrorism is still a major concern in India. These issues include:
There are many approaches to leadership theories. Some of them are trait approach, functional approach, behavioral style approach, situational approach, transactional and transformational approach, and inspirational or charismatic leadership. Among the above-mentioned leadership approaches, most appropriate approach to resolve the issue of terrorism in India is ‘Group or functional approach’
According to this approach, leadership can be developed and learned. This focuses on responsibilities, functional, and accountability of a leader, and feature of a group that examines the effects of a leader’s behavior, and is affected by the followers or group. One main theory of functional approach that is relevant in this case, is Adair’s action-centered leadership. These approaches concern about leaders needs and do balance the requirement of an individual, the team, and the tasks.
John Adair established a model of ‘Action-Centered Leadership’ that consists of relating circles that overlay because:
This defines how a leader must balance their leadership among task, individual, and teams, how to improve the effectiveness of leadership and focuses on their actions. This is one of the popular approaches to leadership. The focus is on leadership function instead of the leader’s personality and leadership is seen from the perspective of the behavior of a leader that affects and get affected by the follower. As per this approach, one can improve performance through training and education development in leadership behavior.
If this model is considered, individual include residents of the country, workforce, government, and institution working for terrorism. For the leadership issue of coordination, this model could have been applied. To counter the issue of coordination among the workforce, government, and other institutions for this wicked problem. Working, an individual could not help in this problem, teamwork is very essential to handle the problem as a whole and coordination must be done effectively to cater to this wicked problem.
Another approach suitable in this wicked problem is ‘Situational approach and contingency model.’ According to this approach, there is no single style and the right leadership approach could be taken in a particular situation. This type of leadership focuses on different situations that the leader is facing. Most effective leadership style is taken and adopted by the leaders according to the current or changing situation. This theory says that there is no one leadership style that is suitable or appropriate in every situation occurring. To be successful in various activities in various situations, a leader should adapt their style for an optimum performance.
For example, various leadership discussed previously like strategic distribute, and cultural leadership must be used in different situations in handling different issues, considering the current situation. If the issue of making proper strategy arises then a strategic leadership must be considered. By using this model for the wicked problem, different leadership can be applied as per the need of the problem.
‘Group or functional approach’ play important role in Terrorism problem in the country. Since the major issue is coordination in this wicked problem, and this approach clearly defines the balance between task, individual, and the team. In the countries, the leaders must also be trained and developed to resolve the problem of terrorism. The three components of John Adair model of action centered leadership, consist of the task which in case of this wicked problem are coordinating, formulating strategies, making policies, assigning responsibilities, prevention strategies. It must be performed by the team, which includes government, arm forces, political leaders, security forces, various organizations all together instead of just one person to make the task successfully accomplished. The team component of the model explains the need for training and development of all the members involved in the task, this is another major leadership issue that was discussed earlier in case of this wicked problem in India. Another leadership issue was motivation, this is considered in the last component of this model where every individual involved in the resolution of terrorism is to be challenged and motivated to perform well the task. For example,
Situational approach and contingency model is also relevant in the resolution of the problem of terrorism in India. Since the environment is, dynamic and so do the situations where different decisions need to be made. Terrorism is not fixed; it means it could be any form of terrorist group, and any type, either an organization, group or individuals. Every terrorist attack or different situations of terrorism in different regions of India lead to taking decision accordingly. Instantly adopting a particular leadership style to resolve the problem in that particular situation would be more relevant than deciding a particular leadership style for all the situations of terrorism. For example, the Mumbai attack must have needed different leadership style than that of the situation of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. Therefore, considering this approach in this wicked problem is quite justified. For example, distributed leadership is to be used when coordination issue is to be handled, cultural leadership can be used at the time of inspiring the team and India’s residents for patriotism, or improving policies by government related to safety. Moreover, strategic leadership is used when decision-making or strategies are to be formulated. Similarly, different leadership is used in the different suitable situation under this wicked problem.
Conclusion
To conclude the discussion it can be said that terrorism is a major wicked problem in a developing country like India. If history is observed, there have been a number of a terrorist attack in the country that could be due to leadership issues, which need to be, reform. This could explain the role of various leaders and their issues that are essential to critically, evaluate to resolve the problem of terrorism in India. There were many issues discussed where the issue of coordination, development of individuals, budget were a major concern in the wicked problem of Terrorism in India. There were four types of leadership: Strategic, Distributed, Culture, Worldly leadership, which play important role in resolving this problem of terrorism. Moreover, some of the recommendations for further counter-terrorism were provided among which international assistance, capacity building, good grievances were important in this aspect.
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