Digital Mindsets: Recognizing and Leveraging Individual Beliefs for Digital Transformation:

Employees' beliefs about technological change, their "digital mindsets," are likely to influence their engagement in, or withdrawal from, their company's digital transformation initiatives. Employees' beliefs regarding the malleability of personal ability (fixed/growth mindset) and their beliefs about the availability of situational resources (zero-sum/expandable-sum mindset) influence the extent to which they see new technologies as providing opportunities for professional growth or as encroaching on their ability to display competency. This article examines the implications for managing digital transformation.