e-Leadership during COVID-19: Challenges for Municipal Administration Employees

Vita Jukneviciene, Rita Toleikiene, Irma Rybnikova

2021

Abstract

E-leadership was a practice of the business sector and just recently it found the applicability in organizations of the public sector. For a long period e-leadership was rather a random case than a common practice in municipalities. Covid-19 pandemic has affected the change of organizational practices globally, forcing even municipal administrations to look for ICT tools helping them to keep their internal processes continuing. Laws and regulations have been changed to legalize remote work, therefore, e-leadership as a common practice gained the peak of practical importance. The aim of the article is to reveal main challenges of e-leadership for municipal administration employees during Covid-19. The article is based on the summarizing of empirical results of the case study, conducted in Lithuanian municipal administration. The sudden turn to e-leadership required leaders and employees of municipal administration to adapt new tools, time planning and working culture, which had some positive and negative effects on leaders and employees in municipal administrations. It influenced the decrease of time wasting, increased rational and targeted communication, and the careful and trustful control of tasks’ implementation. On the other hand, the changed situation and leadership methods had a negative impact on the psychology of employees (constant tense and uncertainty), increased work-life imbalance, etc.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Jukneviciene V., Toleikiene R. and Rybnikova I. (2021). e-Leadership during COVID-19: Challenges for Municipal Administration Employees. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Finance, Information Technology and Management - Volume 1: ICFITM, ISBN 978-989-758-576-0, pages 33-37. DOI: 10.5220/0011073100003168

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icfitm21,
author={Vita Jukneviciene and Rita Toleikiene and Irma Rybnikova},
title={e-Leadership during COVID-19: Challenges for Municipal Administration Employees},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Finance, Information Technology and Management - Volume 1: ICFITM,},
year={2021},
pages={33-37},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011073100003168},
isbn={978-989-758-576-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Finance, Information Technology and Management - Volume 1: ICFITM,
TI - e-Leadership during COVID-19: Challenges for Municipal Administration Employees
SN - 978-989-758-576-0
AU - Jukneviciene V.
AU - Toleikiene R.
AU - Rybnikova I.
PY - 2021
SP - 33
EP - 37
DO - 10.5220/0011073100003168