Individual Characteristics as Enablers of Construction Employees’ Digital Literacy: An Exploration of Leaders’ Opinions

The shift towards digitalisation has been empowering growth in the construction industry, especially past decade. Construction stakeholders are offered myriad benefits by embracing digital advancements to achieve efficiency. However, exploitation of opportunities is bounded need for a practitioner skillset that aligns with era, requirement described as difficult meet and justified low degree literacy among employees. This paper reports findings from interviews 19 leaders decision makers sector reveal indicators can predict employees’ literacy. Such an approach offers comprehensive exploration likelihood through socially oriented characteristics. Overall, individual characteristics emerged thematic analysis highlight critical connection between social behaviour this timely important those businesses assessing their willingness maturity regard technological change behavioural information. qualitative led development conceptual framework explain dynamics needed assess organisations. study, therefore, reveals effectiveness predicting readiness shine era shedding light on examinations workplace. first encourage research efforts take into account importance studying psychological complexities, which subject areas limited recent literature. As such, it value employers wishing embed greater firms, well researchers domain policymakers looking transformations.