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The Dark Side of Digital Leadership: Practical Implications of the bidt Project Exploitative Leadership in Digital Collaboration: Resilience for Employees, Leaders and Digital Communication Tools

Autoren

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Markus Böhm
Markus.Boehm@haw-landshut.de
Alexandra Hauser
Ellen Schmid
Maxi Holzapfel
Melanie Vilser
Lisa Wein

Medien

From Insight to Action: Practical Implications from Interdisciplinary bidt Research Projects for Navigating Digital Change in Organisations

Veröffentlichungsjahr

2026

Band

19

Seiten

24–29

Veröffentlichungsart

Beiträge in Monografien, Sammelwerken und Schriftenreihen

ISBN

2701-2379

DOI

https://doi.org/10.35067/xypq-kn77

Zitierung

Boehm, Markus; Hauser, Alexandra; Schmid, Ellen; Holzapfel, Maxi; Vilser, Melanie; Wein, Lisa (2026): The Dark Side of Digital Leadership: Practical Implications of the bidt Project Exploitative Leadership in Digital Collaboration: Resilience for Employees, Leaders and Digital Communication Tools. From Insight to Action: Practical Implications from Interdisciplinary bidt Research Projects for Navigating Digital Change in Organisations 19, 24–29. DOI: 10.35067/xypq-kn77

The Dark Side of Digital Leadership: Practical Implications of the bidt Project Exploitative Leadership in Digital Collaboration: Resilience for Employees, Leaders and Digital Communication Tools

Abstract

Highlights:

  • Exploitative leaders are self-interested and destructive when leadingemployees and organisations
  • Non-hierarchical environments, fostering psychological safety, empowermentand trust, are important in buffering exploitative leadership’s negative effects
  • Digital collaboration tools that do not focus on surveillance but supporttransparency and team connection may buffer the negative effects ofexploitative leadership
  • Key skills for leaders are digital literacy and adaptability to employees’ needs