Digital health in the workplace attracts practitioners' and scholars' attention because digital health is relevant to ensuring the satisfaction, retention, and long-term workableness of employees. We draw attention to the role leaders play in digital health in the workplace and introduce the concept of digital health-oriented leadership. Based on related literature, we define health-oriented leadership as a leadership style that models and supports the healthy use of information systems (IS) to maintain and improve employee well-being. We conceptualize digital health-oriented leadership consisting of three dimensions: awareness of digital health and potential threats, the importance that leaders attach to digital health, and behaviors of leaders to support digital health. Insights from 37 interviews with leaders and team members support the extraction and description of relevant subdimensions taking a leaders-, team members-, and IS-perspective. The new concept specific to the digital health context paves the way for an enhanced understanding and promotion of healthy working with IS in the digital age, leading us to develop six avenues for future research.
Pflügner et al. (Thu,) studied this question.