Does workplace digitalization matter in linking transformational leadership and innovative culture to employee engagement?

IF 2.7 4区管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Organizational Change Management Pub Date : 2023-05-05 DOI:10.1108/jocm-06-2022-0184

L. Hooi, Ai Joo Chan

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PurposeEngaged employees are an organization’s competitive advantage because the employees are willing to strive for organizational excellence. This paper examines employee engagement (EE), taking workplace digitalization as the mediator. The authors developed an integrated framework introducing transformational leadership and innovative culture as EE antecedents in workplace digitalization settings. Specifically, the authors argue that transformational leadership and innovative culture influence EE directly and indirectly through workplace digitalization.Design/methodology/approachA total of 256 valid online-survey samples were used in the structural equation modeling (SEM) tests. The respondents were the management-level executives of Selangor/Kuala Lumpur-based Malaysian companies.FindingsThe authors' findings support that workplace digitalization positively influences EE. Unlike transformational leadership, innovative culture positively influences workplace digitalization. Further, innovative culture directly affects EE and indirectly through workplace digitalization, albeit partially. Transformational leadership directly influences EE but is insignificant through workplace digitalization.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that organizations that wish to fast-track EE can cultivate an innovative culture to facilitate employees' acceptance of workplace digitalization and enhance EE.Originality/valueThe authors' research expands the interdisciplinary theoretical foundation on how employees' perception and acceptance of workplace digitalization add to EE by highlighting the roles of transformational leaders and innovative culture. The authors' research is among the first few investigating how transformational leadership and innovative culture affect EE in the presence of workplace digitalization. The authors also discussed workplace digitalization as a mediator to innovative culture–EE relationships.

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工作场所数字化在将转型领导力和创新文化与员工敬业度联系起来方面重要吗？

敬业的员工是组织的竞争优势，因为员工愿意为组织的卓越而奋斗。本文以工作场所数字化为中介，考察员工敬业度(EE)。作者开发了一个综合框架，将变革型领导和创新文化作为工作场所数字化环境中的情感表达的前提。具体而言，作者认为变革型领导和创新文化通过工作场所数字化直接或间接地影响情感表达。设计/方法/方法共使用256个有效的在线调查样本进行结构方程模型(SEM)测试。受访者是位于雪兰莪州/吉隆坡的马来西亚公司的管理层高管。研究结果作者的发现支持了工作场所数字化对情感表达的积极影响。与变革型领导不同，创新文化对工作场所数字化有积极影响。此外，创新文化直接影响情感表达，并通过工作场所数字化间接影响情感表达。变革型领导通过工作场所数字化直接影响情感表达，但影响不显著。研究结果表明，希望快速推进电子商务的组织可以培养一种创新文化，以促进员工对工作场所数字化的接受，并提高电子商务。作者的研究通过强调变革型领导者和创新文化的作用，扩展了员工对工作场所数字化的感知和接受如何增加情感表达的跨学科理论基础。这两位作者的研究是首批调查变革型领导和创新文化如何在工作场所数字化的情况下影响情感表达的研究之一。作者还讨论了工作场所数字化作为创新文化-情感表达关系的中介。

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Journal of Organizational Change Management MANAGEMENT-

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5.80

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期刊介绍： ■Adapting strategic planning to the need for change ■Leadership research ■Responsibility for change implementation and follow-through ■The psychology of change and its effect on the workforce ■TQM - will it work in your organization? Successful organizations respond intelligently to factors which precipitate change. Economic climates, political trends, changes in consumer demands, management policy or structure, employment levels and financial resources - all these elements are constantly at play to ensure that organizations clinging on to static structures will ultimately lose out. But change is a dynamic and alarming thing - this journal addresses how to manage it positively.