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Exploring the role of digital leadership in advancing digital accessibility and perceived inclusion of employees with disabilities in South Africa
Mini Dissertation (MPhil (Change Leadership))--University of Pretoria, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/109665 Exploring the role of digital leadership in advancing digital accessibility and perceived inclusion of employees with disabilities in South Africa Adegbesan, Adetunji ichelp@gibs.co.za Rajagopal, Melanie UCTD Digital leadership Digital accessibility Inclusion Inclusive workspaces Mini Dissertation (MPhil (Change Leadership))--University of Pretoria, 2025. Digital transformation has redefined how organisations function, yet people with disabilities remain excluded from fully participating in digitally mediated workplaces. This study explores how digital leadership influences digital accessibility and perceived inclusion among employees with disabilities in South Africa. The research addresses key gaps, the lack of empirical frameworks linking leadership behaviours to accessibility outcomes, limited understanding of how accessibility mediates inclusion experiences, and scarce evidence contextualised to South Africa’s socio-economic and legislative landscape. Guided by Transformational Leadership Theory, Organisational Inclusion Theory and the complementary philosophy of Ubuntu, the study employed a quantitative, cross-sectional design using a survey. While the small sample limits statistical generalisability, the findings provide valuable exploratory insights for theory refinement and policy advancement. Results revealed strong, positive correlations between digital leadership and digital accessibility, and between accessibility and perceived inclusion. Mediation analysis confirmed that digital accessibility fully mediates the relationship between leadership and inclusion. The direct effect of leadership on inclusion was non-significant, identifying accessibility as an essential, practical mechanism through which leadership intent must be translated to achieve perceived inclusion. The study contributes a contextually grounded model of digitally mediated inclusion, advancing theory and offering practical insights for leaders and policymakers to embed accessibility as an ethical and strategic imperative within South Africa’s evolving digital workplace. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MPhil (Change Leadership) Unrestricted Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) SDG-10: Reduces inequalities 2026-04-21T08:47:36Z 2026-04-21T08:47:36Z 2026-05-05 2025 Mini Dissertation * A2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/109665 en © 2025 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Digital leadership Digital accessibility Inclusion Inclusive workspaces Exploring the role of digital leadership in advancing digital accessibility and perceived inclusion of employees with disabilities in South Africa |
| title | Exploring the role of digital leadership in advancing digital accessibility and perceived inclusion of employees with disabilities in South Africa |
| title_full | Exploring the role of digital leadership in advancing digital accessibility and perceived inclusion of employees with disabilities in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the role of digital leadership in advancing digital accessibility and perceived inclusion of employees with disabilities in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the role of digital leadership in advancing digital accessibility and perceived inclusion of employees with disabilities in South Africa |
| title_short | Exploring the role of digital leadership in advancing digital accessibility and perceived inclusion of employees with disabilities in South Africa |
| title_sort | exploring the role of digital leadership in advancing digital accessibility and perceived inclusion of employees with disabilities in south africa |
| topic | UCTD Digital leadership Digital accessibility Inclusion Inclusive workspaces |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/109665 |