Digital Leadership

Customers are demanding services using evolving technologies, and firms need agility in the way systems are designed and delivered to quickly meet customer expectations. Such agility is in fact an organizational capability where a combination of internal and supplier/partner resources allow firms to quickly create customer value propositions and deliver value through digital services, that is, services using advanced digitization. Leadership that enables such a customer-centric and service-driven culture using technology is referred to as digital leadership. This chapter develops a 10-step methodology not only to show how an innovative value proposition moves from conception to implementation using an agile system and business architecture, but also to lead to the next set of innovations for review. This methodology, developed over four years iteratively using over 100 graduate student projects, is briefly illustrated through two case examples

The Effects of Leadership Style and Work Environment on Digital Leadership: A Literature Review

This paper thoroughly reviews the literature on the link between leadership style, digital leadership, and the climate of a company. As more and more organizations embrace digital developments, it’s important to know how leadership styles and digital leadership affect the environment of a company. This study aimed to combine what we already know about leadership styles with digital leadership. This will help us understand how corporate climate affects the relationship between leadership style and digital leadership. The results showed that the organizational climate, which is affected by how leaders do their jobs, significantly affects how well digital leadership practices work in a company. Different types of leadership have different effects on a company’s culture, which can help or hurt the success of digital leadership initiatives. The results also showed how important it is to understand and change the organization’s culture in order to use digital tools and lead teams well in the digital age. By creating a positive and helpful environment, organizations can make it easier for digital leadership practices to be adopted and used successfully. This will improve the effectiveness of leadership and the results of the whole organization. Keywords: Leadership Style, Digital Leadership, Organizational Climate

A scoping review on mapping the digital leadership constructs for educational settings: what we can learn?

Another style of leadership utilized in the field of education, notably digital leadership, has become more prevalent. Studies on digital leadership are receiving more attention, but there has not been much focus on scoping reviews. To determine the constructs of digital leadership, this study undertakes a scoping review. Accordingly, a scoping review on human-influenced and non-human-influenced constructs in measuring digital leadership was carried out in this study. This scoping review follows six processes: i) identification of the research question; ii) literature research; iii) selection of relevant studies; iv) charting the information; v) collating, summarizing, and reporting of study results; vi) discussion of the results and implications for future research. A scoping review was conducted via the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google databases to identify empirical studies on constructs in digital leadership since 2014. Next, the titles and abstracts for selected full-text articles were screened manually. Data from the included articles were charted and summarized. To develop specific and empirical data for measuring digital leadership, the study found that 22 constructs were influenced by humans and three constructs were non-human-influenced. Interpersonal and intrapersonal skills were separated from the constructs that were influenced by humans, with 15 constructs constituting intrapersonal skills and seven constructs constituting interpersonal skills. The results will help identify the crucial components of successful digital leadership. Future research is warranted in creating programs such as workshops, training, and conferences to promote digital leadership and further improve the study

Digital leadership: transitioning into the digital age

Aims and Objectives: Today's globally competitive digital business environments drive CEOs quest for Australian corporates to find global sustainability. Such Australian corporate CEOs see business success as more than simply competition defined by financial profit. These CEOs likely recognise digital business models should encompass strong customer focus, and a need to improve performance for betterment of society. In doing so, today's Australian corporate CEOs generally recognize both they and their corporate need to be digitally savvy and engaged in jointly managing digitally-enabled business models. Consequently, many Australian corporates are undergoing some form of digital transformation yet estimates of only 8% of Australian corporates are getting their desired results. Therefore, a Digital Leadership framework supports Australian corporate CEOs development in the digital age is important, and to develop a transitioning model to help Australian corporate CEOs understand how to digitally transform in an easy simplified manner is also important. Scope: Even though tomorrow's digital frontier remains partly unknown, new digital business models are emerging, shaping and disrupting existing global business environment. Australian corporate CEOs are now competing for a finite global marketspace in a competitive digital environment. Thus, these CEOs are exploring smart strategies to digitally advance their corporate. This is known as digital transformation. Previous research indicates only 5% of corporate CEOs possess strong Digital Leadership credentials, but 72% are wanting to develop new Digital Leadership programs. While projections into the future indicate by 2025 adoption and use of digital technologies may add around $250B to Australia's GDP, further projections to 2050 indicate China expects greater GDP than United States and India expects to be 3rd globally in GDP. Therefore, Australian CEOs need to be prepared to lead their corporates through radical digital transformation using strong Digital Leadership. However, outlook indicates 86% of Australian business leaders are 'overwhelmed' by digital transformation projects, and 70% are struggling to keep pace with digital innovation. Globally, today's corporate leaders display a competitive global focus, flexibility with using one or more leadership approaches creating dynamic, digital engagement strategies energize and motivate their workforce to promote collaboration. Countries such as China acknowledge technologies shape demand for digital skills, and indicate skills in business analytics, mobile connectivities and cloud data shall be needed across the next five years, at least. Global CEOs must also pursue similar digital transformations to remain competitive. Although Australian corporate CEOs acknowledge need to digitally transform, they may need a cutting-edge leadership approach to lead digital transformation in order to outperform global competition. This required cutting-edge leadership approach is known in this research as Digital Leadership. Literature support best leadership approach in the digital age is a combination of leadership approaches with broad leadership strategies and skills sets. Hence, this research proposes a Digital Leadership framework encompassing a combination of three macro leadership approaches (authentic, transactional, and transformational). A Digital Leadership framework is developed to define Digital Leadership; and further develops a Digital Leadership Conceptual Model to explain Digital Leaders influence on digital transformation processes. This research then proposes this conceptual model as the Digital Leadership Research Model, ready for testing. Methodology: This research uses mixed methods to test the Digital Leadership Research Model. Measurement items are developed from existing measures and compiled into a survey structure. This on-line survey is conducted with Australian corporate CEOs, with N=165 usable responses. Quantitative data supports testing of the Digital Leadership Research Model. While qualitative data provides further support and interesting analysis of Australian CEOs opinions on most important factors a corporate leader should have in the digital age. Data analysis plans to use appropriate software for; data preparation, frequencies and factor reduction (SPSS), structural equation modelling (SEM) path analysis (AMOS), and qualitative analysis (NVivo). Results Summary: Data validates through comparing demographic information with previously published data. Descriptive statistics analysed, and data found to have normal distribution. Overall SEM measures of goodness-of-fit of the Digital Leadership Research Model are excellent. Qualitative results provide support for the SEM path model and demonstrate how Digital Leadership may be measured in a three-dimensional space. Further analysis provides insight into how Australian corporate leaders are thinking with interesting word frequency effects. Conclusions: Although qualitative responses from Australian corporate CEOs suggest strong digital transformation understanding, they demonstrate transformation is not top-of-mind. There appears to be a mismatch between Australian corporate CEOs level of digital savviness and ability to implement digital transformation. This research makes real-world contributions to how Digital Leaders may achieve digital transformation, through various pathways; and supports conceptualisation of Digital Leadership. This is discussed comparatively with digitally transforming corporates. Further contributions include defining Digital Leadership, and foundations for development of a Digital Leadership theory. Future contribution includes developing the Digital Leadership Research Model as a theoretical transformation model

Digital Leadership Kepala Sekolah Hubungannya dengan Kinerja Guru dan Kompetensi Siswa Era Abad 21

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between five principal digital leadership constructs, namely visionary leadership, digital age learning culture, excellence in professional practice, systemic improvement, and digital citizenship with teacher performance and student competence in the 21st century. The number of samples in This study consisted of 96 people consisting of principals and teachers from 24 schools. The data analysis in this study used SEM with the help of the AMOS 24 program. The results showed that the five components of digital leadership namely visionary leadership, digital age learning, excellent in professional, systemic improvement, and digital citizenship have a direct effect on teacher performance and student competence in the century era. 21. The five components of digital leadership also indirectly affect student competence through teacher performance. The contribution of this research shows that with adequate digital leadership practices, supporting the efforts of teachers in achieving the expected performance, can improve student competence in the 21st century era.Keywords: digital leadership, teacher performance, student competence, elementary school Abstrak: Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi hubungan antara lima konstruksi kepemimpinan digital kepala sekolah, yaitu kepemimpinan visioner, budaya pembelajaran zaman digital, keunggulan dalam praktik profesional, peningkatan sistemik, dan kewarganegaraan digital dengan kinerja guru dan kompetensi siswa di abad 21. Jumlah sampel dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 96 orang terdiri dari Kepala Sekolah dan Guru dari 24 Sekolah. Analisis data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan SEM dengan bantuan program AMOS 24. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan kelima komponen digital leadership yakni visionary leadership, digital age learning, excellent in professional, systemic improvement, dan digital citizenship berpengaruh secara langsung terhadap kinerja guru dan kompetensi siswa di era abad 21. Kelima komponen digital leadership tersebut juga berpengaruh secara tidak langsung terhadap kompetensi siswa melalui kinerja guru. Kontribusi penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa dengan praktik kepemimpinan digital yang memadai, mendukung upaya guru dalam mencapai kinerja yang diharapkan, dapat meningkatkan kompetensi siswa diera abad 21.Kata kunci: digital leadership, kinerja guru, kompetensi siswa, sekolah dasa

The Level of Advanced Digital Leadership Practice Among Public School Principals in Karak Governorate from the Point of View of the Teachers Themselves

The current study aimed to identify the level of advanced digital leadership practice among public school principals in Karak Governorate from the point of view of the teachers themselves, and to detect differences in the level of digital leadership practice among public school principals according to the variables of gender, experience and educational qualification. The study used the descriptive analytical approach. A questionnaire was developed to measure the level of digital leadership practice among school principals, its validity and reliability indicators were verified, and the study sample consisted of (365) male and female teachers who were randomly selected. Teachers were average, and it was found that there were statistically significant differences in the level of digital leadership practice among public school principals in Karak governorate from the teachers’ point of view due to gender and in favor of females, as well as the presence of differences attributed to experience and in favor of those with higher experience, while the results showed that there were no differences due to educational qualification The study recommended that there should be efforts and measures that should be taken by the Ministry of Education, directorates and schools to develop the level of school principals' practice of digital leadership, such as providing the necessary training and qualification for principals and teachers on the use of technology in education, and providing the necessary resources to improve the digital infrastructure in the school. Which requires the integration of the efforts of the administration, teachers, students and parents to improve the level of digital leadership in schools. Keywords: advanced digital leadership, school principals, public schools DOI: 10.7176/JEP/14-14-04 Publication date:May 31st 202

Digitalizing South African Universities: Exploring Benefits, Barriers and Risks

University leaders in South Africa have employed various leadership styles which focus on improving employee, departmental, faculty and organizational performance. However, digital leadership style is not popular and applied by leaders in universities in South Africa despite compelling benefits associated with digital leadership in universities which include improvement in communication with the key university stakeholders, enhancing the learning and teaching process, quality research outputs, community engagement, leadership and management. The present study aims to provide an understanding of the digital leadership in relation to other seminal leadership approaches which are pertinent in universities. This study further ascertains the benefits, challenges and risks in digitalizing campuses in the epoch of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It significantly shapes university policies on digital technology, practices and theories on leadership styles which can bring radical changes in universities. This chapter equips university leaders to harness digital leadership style benefits and capacitate university leaders on risks associated by leading with technology. Application of the digital leadership style will assist university leaders in different employment categories to digitally improve employee and organizational performance, eliminate wastage and provide smooth communication channels and regular feedback

The Development and Evolution of Digital Leadership: A Bibliometric Mapping Approach-Based Study

The inevitable digitalization of workplaces in the present era, generally as a result of technological developments, has caused a paradigm shift, along with new innovative business models and business behaviors, which has required leaders to possess certain digital skills for sustainable corporate performance. Hence, studies on digital leadership have attracted the attention of academics and practitioners worldwide, with many studies having been conducted on the topic. However, a comprehensive analysis of the intellectual architecture, knowledge structure, and thematic evolution of the digital leadership field of research using science mapping tools has yet to be conducted. The current study, therefore, aimed at reviewing the intellectual structure and evolution of the digital leadership field through a bibliometric and science-mapping analysis. This study used digital leadership as an umbrella term comprising leadership styles such as e-leadership, virtual leadership, technology leadership, and leadership 4.0, which have similar meanings and can be used interchangeably. With this purpose, bibliometric performance and science mapping analysis was performed on articles related to the research field that were retrieved from the Scopus database using SciMAT software (version 1.1.04). The results of the study revealed that the scope of digital leadership research is gradually expanding and diversifying and that publication output is increasing steadily. In addition, period-based analysis showed that the technology management theme during the first period, the virtual teams and technology themes during the second period, and the COVID-19, virtual reality, and digital technologies themes during the third period emerged as the motor themes and formed the focus of research in this field. Thematic evolution analysis showed that virtual leadership during the first and second periods, virtual teams during the second period, e-leadership and technology during the second and third periods, and digital leadership, COVID-19, and virtual reality during the third period, along with technology leadership in all three periods were all noteworthy as well-developed research themes. These findings enable a better understanding of the research field of digital leadership and provide a reference for future research by revealing the conceptual structure and thematic evolution of the digital leadership knowledge base

Performance Development Models Based on The Concept of Coersive Digital Leadership: The Role of Curiosity As A Manifestation of Intrinsic Motivation

The goal of this study was to examine the performance development model used by lecturers at private Islamic universities in Central Java, which was based on the idea of coercive digital leadership supported by a trait of intrinsic motivation called curiosity. The population in this study was the head of the undergraduate study program of Private Islamic Universities in Central Java in the form of a university institution. The sampling method using purposive sampling technique was 80 Head of Undergraduate Study Programs at Private Islamic Universities in Central Java who hold the position of Head of Study Programs at Islamic University in Central Java. Data analysis in this study used Partial Least Square (PLS). According to study utilizing PLS analysis, curiosity significantly improves performance and had a good impact on coercive digital leadership. The performance of lecturers was significantly improved through coercive digital leadership. So that the model for improving Lecturer performance can be carried out by implementing Coercive digital leadership which was triggered by increasing Lecturer curiosity. Keywords: curiosity, leadership, lecturer, performance, universitie

The Effects of Principals’ Digital Leadership on Teachers’ Digital Teaching during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Malaysia

Education involving digital technology is the latest transformation of the education system, especially during the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Malaysian Ministry of Education (MOE) has taken the initiative to spearhead efforts to develop the skills and potential of students in the use of digital technology. The main purpose of this study was to identify the level of digital leadership displayed by principals, the level of teachers' digital teaching practices and the elements of principals' digital leadership that predict the level of teachers' digital teaching. About 400 secondary school teachers in Hulu Langat District, Selangor were involved in this study. The findings of this study show that the level of digital leadership displayed by principals and teachers’ digital teaching practice are both at a high level. However, the positive correlation between the two is moderate. Multiple regression found that only digital citizenship is a strong predictor of teachers' digital teaching. The findings show that the ability to plan and organize digital leadership programs is important and can help improve students' academic performance, despite the COVID-19 pandemic crisis