In this Digital era, leadership of organizations have to find leaders who think digital. In this regard if you have developed a multi dimensional construct that measure digital leadership, can you please share with me as I’m trying to read that area in depth and wish to discover a measurement scale in the process. Thanking you in advance
Oshan
Digital leadership is a combination between digital culture and digital competence.. based on he past research work , some of the dimensional construct of digital leadership can be summarised as
ICT capability,
business acumen,
Storytelling mastery
Agile working
Creative collaboration
Embracing new technologies
Wellbeing wisdom
Digital Literacy.
Applications of Social and Digital Technologies.
Implications of Social and Digital Technologies.
Digital Transformation.
.Digitally-Savvy Leadership Style and
strategic leadership
Thank you very much for your detailed answer. I’m very appreciative of your time spent on answering the question. Your inputs will definitely improve my study. Thank you - Oshan
The following paper talks about the topic; you may want to check it out.
Skills for digital leadership-Prerequisite for developing high-tech economy
M Temelkova - International Journal of Advanced Research in …, 2018 - indianjournals.com
Oshan, whilst the measurement of digital leadership is not constrained to a single aspect, there has emerged a range of scholarly works on the same or related issue as follows:
Rüth, R., & Netzer, T. (2020). The key elements of cultural intelligence as a driver for digital leadership success. Leadership, Education, Personality: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1-6.
Berger, S., Bitzer, M., Häckel, B., & Voit, C. (2020). Approaching Digital Transformation-Development of a Multi-dimensional Maturity Model. In ECIS.
Ravesteijn, P., & Ongena, G. (2019, April). The Role of e-Leadership in Relation to IT Capabilities and Digital Transformation. In 12th IADIS Information Systems Conference (pp. 11-13).
Howard, M. C., & Crayne, M. P. (2019). Persistence: Defining the multidimensional construct and creating a measure. Personality and Individual Differences, 139, 77-89.
Good luck with your project.
I would recommend reading the following article:
- Sabrina Zeike 1, Katherine Bradbury, Lara Lindert, and Holger Pfaf (2019) Digital Leadership Skills and Associations with Psychological Well-Being, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, doi:10.3390/ijerph16142628
Thank you very much for all your answers and they added so much to for me to read through and understand the broader concept. I’m very appreciative of all the responses. Thank you very much again
Oshan
You may use e-leadership construct for measuring digital leadership.
Recommended reading:
Van Wart, M., Roman, A., Wang, X., & Liu, C. (2019). Operationalizing the definition of e-leadership: identifying the elements of e-leadership. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 85(1), 80-97.