The Issues in Digital Leadership Worldwide: A Conceptual Paper

Abstract

There has been a huge shift in educational settings since Covid-19 hit worldwide. Given how quickly the educational world evolves, there is a need to uncover issues in the existing leadership style’s practice. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate issues in digital leadership, which has become a critical leadership style in recent years. This paper has referred to a few studies that have been undertaken in Malaysia and other countries from 2020 to the present. As a result, there are four critical topics that have been and continue to be debated around the world. The issues are financial and infrastructure constraints in the implementation of digital leadership, lack of knowledge and skills in digital leadership, measurement and assessment issues in digital leadership and lack of study in digital leadership. Therefore, it is advised that a study be conducted to uncover relevant constructs for digital leadership based on a country's social economic condition in order to prepare future teachers and educational leaders with digital leadership skills.