1 Introduction
2 How will digitalization change leadership?
2.1 How might digitalization change leadership tasks and behavior?
2.1.1 Leadership tasks
2.1.2 Success-critical leadership behaviors
3 Method
3.1 Sample
3.2 Procedure
4 Results
4.1 Major leadership trends
Changes to organizational structure | Changes to work |
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Agility | Location-independence |
Increasing flexibility | Leadership over distance |
Faster product cycles and processes | Digital exchange between employees |
Agile project teams | Use of web meetings |
Diversity | Big Data |
Diversity in age, gender, culture | Data collection, management and analysis |
Interdisciplinary cooperation | Data protection and privacy |
Heterogeneous teams | |
Decrease of hierarchy | Technology |
Line management decreases | Technology takes over leadership tasks |
Project teams increase | Employees are replaced by robots |
Stronger cooperation | Self-responsibility |
Companies join together in associations | Responsibility of employees might increase or decrease |
Cooperative production |
4.1.1 Changes concerning organizational structures
4.1.2 Changes concerning the design of work
4.2 Leadership tasks
Information use in problem solving | Information search and structuring |
Knowing experts inside and outside of the organization becomes more important | |
Creating synergies through interdisciplinary cooperation | |
Managing personnel resources | Managing material resources |
More coaching | Less routine tasks |
Transfer of responsibility to employees | Digital technologies support or replace tasks |
Managing Change | |
Accompanying change | |
Acting flexibly and agilely | |
Communicating openly and transparently | |
Allowing failure |
4.3 Leadership behavior
Strategy orientation | Results orientation |
More digital strategies and cultural changes | Promote employee autonomy by creating an error culture |
Focus on innovative teamwork methods | |
Employee development | Interaction design |
Leader as coach | Communication via digital media |
Consider employees as individuals | Communication of change |
Value orientation | Change orientation |
Conveying self-confidence and transparency | Showing a willingness to learn |
Dealing with value differences between generations | Stay up to date |
Have an overview of their specialization and technological possibilities |