Exploring the role of digital leadership and digital transformation on the performance of the public sector organizations

Abstract

Previous studies rarely discuss how digital leadership influences the performance of public organizations. So far, those who have conducted research only discuss the performance of public organizations. The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between digital leadership and organizational performance, digital leadership and digital transformation and the relationship between digital transformation and organizational performance in public government organizations. The research method is a quantitative survey, research data obtained by distributing online questionnaires to 765 employees of public organizations. Data analysis used a structural equation model (SEM) with SmartPLS 3.0 software. The stages of data analysis are validity, reliability and significance tests. The sampling technique used is non-probability sampling. The questionnaire used in this study uses a Google form distributed to respondents. The questionnaire measurement method uses a Likert scale of 5. The independent variables used in this study are digital leadership and digital transformation. The dependent variable used in this study is the performance of the public organizations. The results of this study indicate that digital leadership had a positive and significant effect on organizational performance, digital leadership had a positive and significant effect on digital transformation and digital transformation had a positive and significant effect on organizational performance.