Predictors of Digital Competence of Public University Employees and the Impact on Innovative Work Behavior

Larissa Pinon de Carvalho, Thiago Poleto (), Camila Carvalho Ramos, Fernando de Assis Rodrigues, Victor Diogho Heuer de Carvalho and Thyago Celso Cavalcante Nepomuceno
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Larissa Pinon de Carvalho: Graduate Program in Administration, Applied Social Sciences Institute, Federal University of Pará, Belém 66075-110, Brazil
Thiago Poleto: Graduate Program in Administration, Applied Social Sciences Institute, Federal University of Pará, Belém 66075-110, Brazil
Camila Carvalho Ramos: Graduate Program in Administration, Applied Social Sciences Institute, Federal University of Pará, Belém 66075-110, Brazil
Fernando de Assis Rodrigues: Graduate Program in Information Science, Applied Social Sciences Institute, Federal University of Pará, Belém 66075-110, Brazil
Victor Diogho Heuer de Carvalho: Sertão Campus, Federal University of Alagoas, Delmiro Gouveia 57480-000, Brazil
Thyago Celso Cavalcante Nepomuceno: Technology Nucleus, Federal University of Pernambuco, Caruaru 55014-900, Brazil

Administrative Sciences, 2023, vol. 13, issue 5, 1-25

Abstract: Digital competence plays an important role in higher education. The literature highlights the adoption and use of digital competence for the development of educational services in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), but it is still necessary to understand its influence on the innovative behavior of the public official. This study aims to investigate the influence of digital competence, based on the predictors’ infrastructure, integration, and digital management, on innovative work behaviors. The research was applied to 540 public employees of a Federal Institution of Higher Education (IFES) in northern Brazil. The response rate for this study was 33.5%. The Structural Equation Modeling approach by Partial Least Squares (PLS-SEM) was used. Empirical findings confirm that public employees with a high level of perception of digital competence more often develop challenging work to generate new innovative behaviors at work. This research was limited to investigating the influence of digital competence on innovative work behaviors of public employees of a Brazilian IFES. Future studies may address other contextual factors in this relationship. One of the practical implications is the need for managers in the education sector to support the construction of guidelines for educational and technological innovation to expand innovative behavior at work.

Keywords: digital competence; innovative work behavior; education innovative; public administration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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