Impact of Digital Transformation on Academicians’ Well-being: A Study with the Moderating Role of Public and Private Universities in India

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This research identifies and compares how digital transformation affects academicians’ well-being in public versus private universities across India. The study defines one exogenous construct—virtual transformation in higher education—and two endogenous constructs, workplace well-being and psychological well-being. Data from 395 respondents across 213 public and 182 private universities support hypothesis testing on group differences. Multigroup Analysis using PLS-SEM shows an overall negative association, with significant variation between public and private contexts.

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Distance Relationship and of Belonging: The voices of students Impact of Digital Transformation on Academicians’ Well-being: A Study with the Moderating Role of Public and Private Universities in India Sourabh Sharma [sourabh@imibh.edu.in](sourabh@imibh.edu.in) [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9729-5129](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9729-5129) International Management Institute, India Megha Sharma [Meghash222@gmail.com](Meghash222@gmail.com) [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3147-1940](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3147-1940) NMIET, India Abstract This research is identifying and compares the impact of digital transformation on academicians’ well-being in public and private Indian universities. To initiate the research, one exogenous construct namely ‘virtual transformation in higher education,’ and two endogenous constructs called ‘workplace well-being’ and ‘psychological well-being’ of academicians have been identified. The data has collected from 395 respondents segregated into academicians from 213 public and 182 private Indian universities. Research hypotheses are developed to find the significant difference among academicians of public and private universities with regard to the impact of virtual transformation on their wellbeing. The Multigroup Analysis (MGA) technique of PLS-SEM has been used to investigate the result. It has been revealed that although the overall association is negative between virtual transformation and academicians’ well-being, this negative association also has a significant difference when compared among public and private universities in India. Keywords Digital Transformation; Academicians’Well-being; Public University; Private University; PLS-SEM. Digital Education Review ⎮ ISSN 2013-9144 ⎮ [http://revistes.ub.edu/der](http://revistes.ub.edu/der) 118 Number 42, December 2022 ⎮ [https://doi.org/10.1344/der.2022.42.118-135](https://doi.org/10.1344/der.2022.42.118-135) I. Introduction The revolutionary change in the field of information technology has transformed the use of digital technologies in the present era . This digital transformation is impacting every aspect of communication, starting from the very basic interpersonal interaction to the level of the integration of complex large-scale infrastructures (Hanseth, 2010) . A pandemic like Covid-19 has instigated and fueled digital transformation in organizations, including education, to achieve educational goals and objectives (Gabryelczyk, 2020) . Digital transformation provides accessibility, increasing engagement and making an interactive and customized teaching-learning environment (Vahedi et al., 2021) . Although digital transformation in education is the need of the hour for managing the upheaval created by Covid-19, it also has a close association with academicians’ well-being. Academicians were not well acquainted with the use of digital technologies to connect with students. The majority of the teachers used digital tools for the first time which increased anxiety in the initial days (Kim & Asbury, 2020) . In March 2020, a complete lockdown was announced in India which compelled academicians to come on the technological platforms to continue the teaching-learning process. The University Grant Commission (UGC), the apex body for higher education in India, issued the guidelines for the universities to follow a six-day teaching-learning schedule, develop virtual classrooms using ICT tools and train the teachers to deliver their knowledge using digital platforms. Teachers’ training related to the use of online tools, e-content development, and delivery in a virtual mode was vital for the continuity of teaching and learning in the country (Gohain, 2020) . During the online webinar in May 2020, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal “Nishank”, former minister of education of India announced that teaching learning in the form virtual classroom is essential to save the academic year of the students. He also emphasized on the adequate

FAQs

What constructs does the study use to examine digital transformation and academicians’ well-being?

It uses one exogenous construct, “virtual transformation in higher education,” and two endogenous constructs: workplace well-being and psychological well-being.

How was the data collected and how many respondents were included?

The analysis uses data from 395 respondents drawn from academicians in 213 public and 182 private Indian universities.

What analytic approach is used to test differences between public and private universities?

The study applies Multigroup Analysis (MGA) with PLS-SEM to examine significant differences between the groups.

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