Individual Dexterity and Psychological Empowering Leadership For Digital Workplace

This research aims to test a concept of individual dexterity in improving individual performance for the digital workplace. Individual dexterity is the ability of individuals to explore fingers and other senses when in contact with information technology devices (finger dexterity) and exploit the idea or ideas to complete the work independently (manual dexterity). A number of 150 respondents who work in creative industries and using information technology-based communication tools to finish their daily job involved in this research. Data was collected using a questionnaire and analyzed using SmartPLS. The results show that individual dexterity is able to predict the performance of individuals who work in a digital environment. In addition, psychological empowering leadership and individual readiness to change play a role as a significant trigger to the formation of individual dexterity which then increases individual performance

Openness Toward Organizational Change Scale (OTOCS): Validity evidence from Brazil and Portugal

Openness toward organizational change is central to employees’ responses to organizations’ strategic actions. This study aims to assess the validity evidence of the Openness Toward Organizational Change Scale (OTOCS) by examining the internal structure of the measure (e.g., dimensionality, reliability, measurement invariance) and its relations with other variables such as quality of work life, burnout, job satisfaction, and work engagement. A cross-sectional study was conducted using total sample of 1,175 workers, with 565 workers from Portugal and 610 from Brazil. The data provided satisfactory validity evidence based on the internal structure: the expected dimensionality was confirmed, acceptable levels of reliability were found, and measurement invariance was achieved among countries and sex. The measure also demonstrated satisfactory validity evidence based on the relations to other variables, being negatively associated with burnout and positively associated with work engagement, job satisfaction and quality of work. The OTOCS proved to be a relatively short self-report measure with satisfactory validity evidence to be used among Brazilian and Portuguese workers.