Manager-Employee Interaction in the Age of Digital Transformation

Abstract

The increasing integration of digital technologies within organizations has inevitably brought changes in the interactions between managers and employees, thus modifying the classic ways in which they interacted within the framework of employment relationships and beyond. Therefore, in the context of these transformations, a series of questions arise, assumptions appear and a comparative line is created between the two methods of interacting, respectively the classic and the digital one. Precisely for this reason and in light of these considerations, this paper aims to identify the implications of these new ways of collaborating and to determine how they are perceived among employees in Romania. Thus, in order to consolidate the study and as a chosen research methodology, the paper focuses on the use of a questionnaire as a tool for collecting relevant data, which is also necessary to validate the hypotheses proposed by the paper, namely the high dimension of the digitalization of manager-employee interactions and the advantage it brings; completing the specialized literature with a topical approach. The research results thus bring a significant contribution to the field, both for the general area and for studies focused on Romania, while also marking the importance of the attention dedicated to this field of research and its significance in practice. UDC: 005.96:004.7(498); JEL: M0, M1, O0, O3