Digital literacies and employee engagement

This study aims to understand the role of digital literacies as a moderator between employee engagement and its antecedents, namely, workplace digitalization and innovative culture. A total of 256 valid samples were used in the analysis. The model was tested using structural equation modeling. The findings reveal that there exists a significant association between employee engagement and its antecedents, namely, workplace digitalization and innovative culture. Digital literacies are found to moderate the relationships between workplace digitalization-employee engagement and innovative culture-employee engagement. This paper provides new insight to practitioners about the role of digital literacies in raising employee engagement in the digital workplace. These findings enrich the literature on employee engagement, whereby improving employee digital literacies strengthens employee acceptance of workplace digitalization and benefits from the innovative culture to stay engaged.

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