Humanizing the Digital Workspace Creativity, Innovation and Leadership in the Age of Technology

The digital economy has fundamentally transformed how we live and work, bringing opportunities and challenges. One of the key challenges is understanding how to effectively navigate the relationship between people and technology and harness its power to foster creativity, innovation, and digital leadership. This book examines the relationship between people and technology in the digital workspace from a multidisciplinary perspective. Unlike most of the existing literature which focuses on the technological aspects of digitization in the workplace, this book equally considers the psychological, social, and cultural implications as well. The contributing authors also provide insights on employee well-being, motivation, and engagement and challenge the assumption that digital technology stifle creativity by demonstrating how innovation can foster collaboration, experimentation, and risk-taking.

Featuring research, theories, case studies, surveys, and interviews from fields such as sociology, psychology and management, this book is of interest to scholars, researchers, and students in sociology, psychology, management and related disciplines, as well as professionals and leaders looking to better understand the impact of technology on the modern workplace.

The role of technology in enabling creativity and innovation in the digital workplace.- The future of work in the digital economy.- The digitalisation of workplaces.- A healthy and productive relationship with digitalised work.- Leadership in digitised workplaces.

Marko Orel is an organizational sociologist serving as an associate professor at the Prague University of Economics and Business. He also holds the title of Head of the Centre for Workplace Research (CWER). His primary research delves into the evolving landscape of workplaces and the metamorphosis of work patterns and related processes. Alongside his main research focus, Marko is currently venturing into experimental, qualitative research methodologies.

Matej Cerne is Associate Professor in Management and Organization at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana (SEBLU), Slovenia. His research interests include non-technological innovations, creativity, organizational behavior and psychology, human resource management, leadership, and multi-level issues in management. His research was published in top international management journals (e.g., Academy of Management Journal) and he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Dynamics Relationship Management Journal and Associate Editor of Economic and Business Review.

Sut I. Wong is Department Chair and Professor of Communication and Management at BI Norwegian Business School; a Professor II at the University of Oslo (Norway); and an Adjunct Faculty at University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). She is also a co-Founder and a former co-Director of the Nordic Centre for Internet and Society at BI. Her research interests center on leadership, employee proactivity, new ways of working, digital teams, team innovation and coordination, focusing on the role of leadership on employee engagement in digital transformation. Her work has been published in various international scientific journals.