A Study on the Impact of CHO's Digital Leadership Competencies on Organizational Performance in the VUCA era: Moderating Effects of Agility of Human Resource Management

In this study, information on CHO's digital leadership, organizational performance, and personnel management agility brought about by the digital transformation era of companies in the VUCA era was collected. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of CHO's digital leadership on organizational performance based on previous studies and to find out if human resource management agility plays a controlling role in the relationship between CHO's leadership wth organizational performance using a structural equation model. The population of the study was conducted on Chinese companies, and a total of 887 questionnaires were collected. The research results are summarized as follows. First, it was confirmed that CHO's digital leadership has a positive effect on organizational performance. The results in study support the corresponding hypothesis based on the theoretical analysis of the relationship between the CHO's leadership perspective and organizational performance. Next, it was found that personnel management agility had a positive effect on organizational performance. Through empirical research based on the results of previous studies on personnel management agility, it was confirmed that personnel management agility had a positive effect on the improvement of the financial and non-financial performance of the organization. In addition, it was found that personnel management agility plays a controlling function in a causal relationship between CHO's digital leadership and organizational performance. Through this study, the essence and core elements of CHO digital leadership were identified, and it was confirmed that CHO's digital leadership in the VUCA era is a factor affecting corporate sustainability management, that is, future survival and growth.