Who fits into the digital workplace? Mapping digital self-efficacy and agility onto psychological traits

Bibliographic Data

ID21401561
AuthorsThomas Maran (0000-0002-5068-4688, Universität Innsbruck), Thomas K Maran, Simon Liegl (0000-0001-6084-8538, University of Liechtenstein), Andrés Dávila (0000-0003-0730-5459, École Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur), Sebastian Moder (0000-0002-1453-7824, University of Liechtenstein), Krau (0000-0003-4886-7482, University of Johannesburg, corresponding author), Raj V Mahto (0000-0002-2080-1409, University of New Mexico)
Year2022
Volume175
Pages121352
Publication date2022-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTechnological Forecasting and Social Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-1625 • E-ISSN: 1873-5509
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121352
OpenAlexW3216945738
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited131

Today's rapidly changing and volatile markets demand a novel set of skills from organizations and employees that allows them to agilely adapt to and surmount the ever-evolving challenges posed by the ongoing development of digital technologies and changes in market conditions. Previous research conducted on structured workplaces using traditional industrialist paradigms had established an ideal composition of employee traits. However, today's contrasting fast-paced environments may have made those profiles obsolete, prompting the need to identify a profile of personalities and interests that enables organizations to assemble a workforce high in digital self-efficacy, which fundamentally drives organizations’ agility. We proposed and evaluated such a model by conducting two studies at international (Study 1, N = 309) and French (Study 2, N = 1,025) publicly traded organizations. The results indicate the personality dimensions openness to experience and emotional stability and investigative and realistic vocational interests are predispositions for the development of digital self-efficacy. Furthermore, we found corroborative evidence for digital self-efficacy to facilitate workforce agility. These findings offer novel insights into those individual psychological traits that foster an agile workforce and make it well-equipped to face the challenges of rapidly changing digital business environments today and in the future

Cognitive psychology · Knowledge management · Applied Psychology · Computer Science · Cyberloafing and Workplace Behavior · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology · Technostress in Professional Settings

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