Organizational digital develo pment requires new competencies from managers.
The aim of the research was to establish the relation between the assessed
level of the companies` digitalization and the assessment of the required
level of digital competencies for managers in different managerial positions
(operational, middle, and executive). The respondents included 97
professionals employed in a human resource department who filled an online
scale the digital development level in companies and a modified scale based
on the European digital competence framework. The results show that the
higher assessment of the organizational digital development predicts the
higher level of required digital competencies, regardless the managerial
position, followed by the main effect of the managerial position on the
required level of digital competencies, with no differences in competency
domains. They indicate the importance of the organizational setting in the
context of the expected digital competency, as well as the existing
differences in the level but not in the domain requirements for competencies
related to the managerial position. Findings should be interpreted in the
context of the limitations stemming from the sample and the fact that both
assessments were carried out by the same respondents who might not be the
experts in organizational digital development.