How to evaluate digital leadership: a cross-sectional study.
Kevin Claassen1, Dominique Rodil Dos Anjos2, Jan Kettschau2
1Chair of Occupational Medicine and Corporate Health Management, Faculty of Health, Department of Human Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50, 58448, Witten, Germany. kevin.claassen@uni-wh.de.
Summary
A new digital leadership competence score was developed and validated for virtual work environments in municipal administrations. This tool measures digital leadership skills, offering a reliable assessment for the evolving digital workplace.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Digital Transformation
- Leadership Studies
Background:
- Digitalization fundamentally alters managerial demands, creating the field of digital leadership.
- Municipal administrations face significant digital transformation challenges.
- A validated instrument is needed to measure digital leadership competence in virtual settings.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and test a score for measuring digital leadership competence.
- To assess this competence specifically within virtual-based workstations in municipal administrations.
- To provide a psychometrically sound instrument for research and practice.
Main Methods:
- An online survey was administered to 546 employees in municipal administrations with virtual workstations in 2020.
- Instrument testing included selectivity, dimensionality (principal component analysis), homogeneity, reliability (Cronbach's α), and construct validity.
- Construct validity was assessed via correlation with general leadership skills.
Main Results:
- The developed instrument demonstrated selectivity, one-dimensionality, homogeneity, reliability, and construct validity.
- The findings support the formulated hypotheses regarding the instrument's psychometric properties.
- Integrating employee perspectives offers a novel approach to assessing digital leadership.
Conclusions:
- The digital leadership competence score is a well-performing instrument for measuring key leadership aspects in digital work environments.
- The instrument is suitable for inducing further research and scientific discourse on digital and health-oriented leadership.
- It contributes to understanding leadership in the context of work 4.0.
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