Organizational digital development and digital competencies required for managers in different positions: The human resource management perspective

Abstract

Organizational digital develo pment requires new competencies from managers. The aim of the research was to establish the relation between the assessed level of the companies` digitalization and the assessment of the required level of digital competencies for managers in different managerial positions (operational, middle, and executive). The respondents included 97 professionals employed in a human resource department who filled an online scale the digital development level in companies and a modified scale based on the European digital competence framework. The results show that the higher assessment of the organizational digital development predicts the higher level of required digital competencies, regardless the managerial position, followed by the main effect of the managerial position on the required level of digital competencies, with no differences in competency domains. They indicate the importance of the organizational setting in the context of the expected digital competency, as well as the existing differences in the level but not in the domain requirements for competencies related to the managerial position. Findings should be interpreted in the context of the limitations stemming from the sample and the fact that both assessments were carried out by the same respondents who might not be the experts in organizational digital development.