Digital Competence as a Mediator for the Leadership in Empowering Workforce Agility

This article attempts to elaborate the impact of empowering leadership and digital competence toward workforce agility in Indonesian construction service company. This articles is based on empirical quantitative study with descriptive and causal analysis for testing hypothesizes. The study has collected and analyzed perceptual responses from 378 field employees as workforce in PT Sinar Budi Sentosa. SmartPLS application were applied for structuring and analyzing the data in PLS based SEM approach. The result concludes that workforce agility is positively, significantly, and directly influenced by empowering leadership of the supervisors and digital competence of the field employees. For establishing workforce agility, supervisors are recommended to apply empowering leadership approach to strengthen digital competence of the workforce. Digital competence plays a mediating role in the relationship between empowering leadership and workforce agility.