Challenges Faced by Leaders in Australian Organizations Due to Digital Emergence

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Introduction
Executives leaders working in Australian organisation believes that digital emergence
amongst the employees is the top challenges faced by the Australian organisation. moreover,
according to a current Canon survey report, respondents took part in it reported that IT
department leaders as well are trying to respond towards the changing customer
requirements, industry disruption and growing competition that is emerging towards
Australian business. However, all the employees in small or big organisational are desirous to
earn the big pay check whereas only a few numbers of people want to face challenges.
During normal period leaders usually faces typical threats such as growing
competition, problems in the supply chain, cash flow and legal issues. Most of the complex
challenges are seen to be challenging leadership is the change in the internet activities during
the period of the previous 30 years. In this regards, the organisation as well have changed
their way of operations where most of the dealings, training activities are done through fast
speed internet that helps to make faster and quicker decisions.
Other major challenges faced by the leaders are shifting in the workforce. Apart from
these major challenges, leaders often face difficulties while coming up with the external
challenges such as lack of funding and resources that come in opposition from the forces
existing within the community.
Based on these, rising challenges in leadership capabilities, the essay presents that
factors that impact on leadership threatening the objective of the group. Moreover, the essay
highlights recommending suggestions for resolving the challenges faced by the leaders while
enhancing the quality of leadership during unpredictable times.
Discussion

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Being a leader itself is challenges where most of the challenges are seen to be of three major
kinds such as external challenges, threats coming from people and situations and internal
challenges those that come from nature if leadership activities (Bach et al., 2015).
External challenges
There is no such situation where the leader does not have to keep up with the
changing external challenges. Within an organisation, where there may issue coming up due
to the lack of funding activities and resources owing from the forces within the community
and interpersonal conflicts within an organisation (Satterwhite, Sheridan & Miller, 2016).
Social, economic, political as well as technological factors within the external world can
affect upon leadership.
These are because, to a certain extent, the measure of any leader is dependent on the
way as to how he can deal with the constant minor crisis that threatens the cohesion of the
group. In this context, if the leader is able to solve the issues, take advantage of this situation
and are able to mitigate the issues (DeMatthews, 2014). Leaders will be able to reduce down
the challenges occurring due to an external environment. However, if the leaders do not
manage the external challenges in a proper way, the organisation may face the problem as
well.
Technological factors
Technology-based leadership has now allowed the employees to work in isolation as a
result of which leaders are not able to train and instruct their employees effectively. The new
world of business is made up of technical devices, artificial intelligence and cloud business
solution that allows the team to work in a more efficient way while helping them to reach the
market (Latham, 2014). However, technology is not only related to advanced computing and

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IT operations it is also related to social media operations, that allows workplaces to reach
different channels of communication that has the potential to influence employees. In this
regards, most of the organisation are aware of the context of leadership that has drastically
changed putting the pressures on the traditional models of management and organisation
(DeMatthews & Mawhinney, 2014).
However, the leaders in today's world are encountered with the highly unpredictable
environment due to change in technology. This is mostly because their organisation are
involved in a new interconnected world with a complicated global network where the
stakeholders are spread across the worlds (McCleskey, 2014). As a result of which leaders
present within the organisation are facing disruptive threats from the continuous innovation
of business technology where they have to deal with political issues, economic and ecological
challenges.
However, Le Fevre & Robinson (2015) stated that situation is now dramatically
changing with the emergence of social technologies that have internet democratic anti
hierarchal ability to easily transcend internal as well as external limits. These social
technologies are also providing each and every individual of the organisation for build a
creative voice and allow to create a real-time virtual connectivity amongst the employees.
Due to these, growing social technologies, there is a double impact of these technologies on
organisational leadership.
This brings out an immediate solution for every changing imperatives and makes
them bring transformation for the outdated system of management and previous models of
leadership. Therefore, organisational needs to the challenges that are capitalising on the
transformational power and connectivity that calls for a new set of leaders and organisational