The article is intended to explore some leadership transformations produced by digitisation. Not only do new organisational culture coordinates transform the institutions’ life in technical or instrumental terms, but they also do it in ethical, social, and cultural terms.
Not only has the fourth industrial revolution (Floridi, 2014) transformed traditional decision-making processes, but it has come to be framed in terms of technological independence. Contrary to traditional decision-making processes, where leaders counted on technologies to make legitimate, plausible, and reasonable their decisions; currently, algorithms and new tools for digitisation, mainly AI, take on traditional tasks of decision ethics strictly speaking.
Given this evolution in the organisational decision processes, a humanistic management of the direction (Domingo y Melé, 2022; Melé, 2016; Pirson, 2018) requires a review of the traditional leadership theories. A transformation that must count on the comprehensive humanism application to the directive tasks, in general, and to the new governance, in particular. Comprehensive humanism tradition is not indifferent to the complexity of personal and communal relationships, which implies being open and including issues considered as metaphysical or spiritual: religiousness, significance, beliefs, problems related to the will of truth: truthfulness, trust, commitment.
This is intended to explore the possibilities for proposals that, counting on the horizon opened by Humanistic management, as a tradition that continues with comprehensive humanism, strengthen decision-making skills in governing teams. Continuing with other research (Domingo, 2024), we consider the possibility of a generative leadership that, in addition to addressing the data evidence provided by AI, also attends to the truth of the talents of human beings who, considered in all their existential dimensions, are tested and developed to a greater or lesser extent within digitalised organisations. In doing so, they draw attention to an ethical concern that generates value for organisations.
