Modelo de avaliação para os perfis de liderança no contexto da transformação digital

Abstract

Digital Transformation in the industrial sector, known as Industry 4.0 and 5.0, has risen expressively in organizations. At the same time, the role of a leader has become strategic to guide organizations through the complexity related to organizational changes in the journey of digital transformation. For the innovation processes intrinsic to Digital Transformation to be part of a new organizational reality, it is essential that all its components and related people are constantly adapting and evolving and that their leaders can recognize, understand, and guide the guidelines that touch this journey. Thus, this paper proposes an assessment model for leadership profiles in the context of Digital Transformation. Based on a broad systematic literature review helped by a PRISMA methodology, it was possible to identify 20 leaders’ main styles, 23 skills, and 19 interest areas for successful Digital Transformation. All attributes were mapped using the Digital Transformation framework as outputs of the efforts and changes in the journey: sensing, smart, sustainable, and social, which also acted as guidelines for the more in-depth study of the three most recurrent leadership styles observed in the literature on the subject, among all those identified: digital leadership, leadership 4.0 and transformational leadership. The main findings of the theoretical study were compiled into a framework on leadership in the era of digitalization and subsequently submitted to the analysis of leaders inserted in the context of Digital Transformation to test the established tool for the assessment model proposed at this juncture. In addition, this study's main contribution is related to understanding the impacts of different characteristics of leadership profiles pertinent to Digital Transformation in relation to developing corporate strategies to guide an organization to the desired purpose.