A study on digital leadership scale (dls) development

Abstract

Abstract: Since digital leadership has become a critical success factor for securing sustainability in companies, it is of great importance to define scalable characteristics of it. In literature, an adequate measuring instrument is not available for assessing the perceptions regarding digital leadership. This study is about digital leadership characteristics and aims to fill the mentioned research gap by developing a “Digital Leadership Scale” based on an empirical study conducted among 526 people working at different se ctors in private and public enterprises in Turkey. After the data were collected, the scope and construct validity of the scale was tested using the statistical programs SPSS and AMOS. The internal consistency coefficient of the scale is .90. As a result of the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, the Digital Leadership Scale (DLS) was validated in 9 items and 2 dimensions, so it can be stated that it is a reliable measuring instrument.