Digital Leadership from the Perspective of Organization 5.0: An Analysis of Key Action Fields towards Green, Resilient, and Human-centered Digitalization

Digital leadership is discussed as a success critical factor for collaborative digital transformation of businesses and gained increasing importance in industry 4.0. However, recent dynamics like current crises, disruptive changes in corporate environments and ecological challenges demand further development towards industry 5.0 including the collaborative principles of organization 5.0. The concept of organization 5.0 complements the technology-oriented perspective of 4.0 towards a broader vision considering digitalization as the key enabler for an ecological, resilient, and human-centered transformation of industries and organizations. In the present article, we analyze key action fields of digital leadership gaining relevance in Organization 5.0. These action fields of digital leadership are introduced along the three pillars of Organization 5.0 described as resilience, green and human-centricity.