The Relationships Among Digital Leadership, Crisis Management and Competitive Performance: Mediating Role of Career Development

Abstract

This research study aimed to examine the intricate associations between digital leadership, crisis management, and competitiveness in higher education institutions by specifically looking at the mediating variables of career development. With the digital revolution occurring at the fast pace, and frequent upheavals in the higher education institutions, digitally competent leadership is becoming essential in universities as they find ways of weathering the storm whilst maintaining competitive edge. Thus, using leadership theory, crisis management literature, and literature on the digital transformation, the research hypothesizes that digital leadership improves the crisis management outcomes of institutions, as it leads to agile decision-making, technological flexibility, and innovative oriented cultures that also lead to competitive performance. Moreover, study claims that career development prospects and digital interaction are key psychological and behavioral processes where the digital leadership is to be transformed into actual crisis response and long-term performance outcomes that are aimed to be examined in the current study. The quantitative research design was applied, with data on surveys done on teacher in higher education institutions. To test proposed relationships and mediation effects, the statistical tools were used to chase hypothesized relationships.