A Descriptive Study on the Military Leadership

This study provides more complete deliberation of the current practices of leadership in the surveyed Armed Forces. This study aims to descriptively identify the degree of motivating military leadership, military environment, characteristics of military leaders and military leadership benefits in the selected army. The research method conducted was based on survey of 200 respondents in Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina and descriptive analyses of the survey data. According to the results, it can be concluded that the results of descriptive analysis could provide a high agreement level of respondents for the questions asked. The study has provided expected results in general. The responses are accumulated generally with high positive agreement on the military leadership benefits and characteristics of military leaders. According to the results, there identified a positive motivating military leadership. Furthermore, military environment is found to be positive. It is also observed that military environment and the missions are simple, and the environment includes regular activities. Since the military environment is full of routine works, this result is quite expected. By considering the results, there is a task, team and organization oriented leadership and shared leadership.