Digital Leadership

7.3 E-leadership

Avolio et al. define e-leadership as "a social influence process mediated by AIT to produce a change in attitudes, feelings, thinking, behavior, and/or organizations". According to DasGupta's literature review on e-leadership, it has the same issues as traditional leadership (i.e., vision, direction, motivation, inspiration, trust). However, some challenges that e-leaders face are as follows: effective communication, conveying enthusiasm digitally, (b) building trust without face-to-face interactions, (c) creating presence, (d) inspiring, (e) mentoring, (f) monitoring and controlling social loafing, (g) fostering technical competence, and (h) finding work-life balance.