We are calling the 21C as an information or digital period. Today, our society has been kept changing without pause in this moment that is moving fast and impending the new technology.
Korean military requires the effort to adapt to new circumstances. Military leadership is very important to manage for leading the new organization and their subordinate unit effectively which is composed by new generations.
Korean military must change and develop to deal with the rapidly changing world situation and prepare for the scientific and information age which is the current requirements for the knowledge information society.
The background of dissertations title is initiated how we can follow this changing wave influence our military to make an effective and strong organization.
To manage the organization effectively, it is very important to reorganize, update information-oriented society, innovation in task, and education and training method. However, the most important thing is leadership of command and control in military organization.
At this point, this dissertation inspires the motivation to the soldiers on their military life that should have a good effect to manage the personnel. The purpose of research suggests developing leadership to win a final destination of war.
The range of research method is based on theory of leadership and examined the problem of the changed leadership by analyzing relative documents. To solve the problem, how we can work on the research to develop the leadership and our effort to do so.
This essay's research methods were referencing leadership related books, essays, and military documents that does not exceed the legal boundary to analyze. The method to approach this essay for theoretical review of leadership, first analyzed existing documents and books. Then analyzed military related references and current civilian references regarding leadership for military leadership of military knowledge and informational based era, adding the background of first-hand experience with military.
The components of this essay is as follows. Chapter 1 illustrates the objective, perimeter, and method of research. Chapter 2 will cover the theoretical statements about military leadership and knowledge and informational society. Chapter 3 analyzes the current state of military's knowledge and informational movement, and upcoming problems with the changes in environment of the military leadership. Then chapter 4 proposes the plan or device to respond against futuristic direction and knowledge and informational society of military leadership. Lastly, chapter 5 states the summary of major contents of the essay.
In conclusion, responding method of military leadership to this socity of knowledge information is first, correctly understand the importance of the leadership and show example by looking out for subordinates when leading them.
Leader must have informational and scientifical mind and utilize and manage various information. Meanwhile, developing systematical research, education, and doctrine regard to command and direct in this knowledge informational 21st century.
Implying the Korean military leadership's vision, fellowship, and empowerment to military organization, manage changes and performing real-time decision makings to adopt actively to digitalized environment are in necessary of research and to act upon them.
Unlike many other researches which cover more detailed and sectional topics in depth, this research emphasizes the visions and directions to our basic and premature state of leadership development and proposes one leveled up tasks for the future interest and course of response. But, the proposed contents are rather not perfect but needs ongoing refinement.
The importance of leadership can not be over emphasized. When the continuos research and effort to develop the leadership method proposed in above and select it as administrative task to push forward actively, Korean military will develop creative and self-reliant leadership.
Also, effectively anticipate for the knowledge informational society, and relate it with military combat power to expect tremendously develop leadership.
Furthermore, I strongly expect this research will provide creative thoughts and used as reference guide to achieve military organization's mission and objective, and development of future military.