Electronic leadership and effectiveness of organisation during COVID-19 pandemic in South-West, Nigeria

Abstract

In a digitalised environment, achieving greater success require a technological driven leader who influence behaviour using advance information technology to ensure organisational effectiveness especially during COVID-19 Pandemic. However, this study investigated electronic leadership and organisational effectiveness during COVID-19 Pandemic, in selected Universities in South-west Nigeria, specifically, the study aims at analysing the role of electronic leadership on organisational effectiveness. Data collection was through structured questionnaire the research utilized simple random sampling techniques to select the study’s respondent. Taro Yamane sample size formular was used to detemine the sampling size of seven hundred and thirteen (713) from the total population of one thousand eight hundred and forty-five (1,845). Descriptive and inferential statistic was the statistical tools that was adopted for the study. Bio-data of the respondents were analsed using descriptive statistics while the hypothesis was analysed using inferential statistics. Essentially, this study hypothesis was tested at 0.05 alpha level utilizing linear regression. The outcome of the study depict that electronic leadership significantly influenced orgnisational effectiveness (R²= 0.038, β = 0.195, F_(1,632) = 24.977, p<0.05). The study concluded that electronic leadership significantly influenced organisational effectiveness. It was recommended that selected Universities should prioritize training their academic staff on the use of digital tools, virtual team management and remote management skills for improved organisational effectiveness and effective performance for future crisis.

Key words: Electronic Leadership, organisational Effectiveness, COVID-19 pandemic.