Leveraging Digital Leadership 4.0 and the Sextuple-A Framework for Institutional Agility and Labor Market Alignment in Ethiopian TVT Institutions
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10.29303/jaie.v2i2.1625Published:
2026-10-21Downloads
Abstract
Global labor markets have been drastically altered by the shift to Industry 4.0, putting tremendous pressure on Technical and Vocational Training (TVT) institutions to create graduates with advanced technological competencies. A continuous skills-maturity gap continues to be a major obstacle despite the National TVT Strategy 2025 and the Digital Ethiopia 2030 initiative's execution. This leads to a vocational paradox where educational outputs fall short of the demands of the high-tech industry. In the context of Ethiopian TVT, this study examines how Digital Leadership 4.0 affects institutional agility and labor market alignment. The study synthesized 42 high-impact research papers on digital transformation, leadership archetypes, and vocational governance using a qualitative systematic review technique that was supervised by the PRISMA 2020 protocol. To assess institutional preparedness, the analysis combines the recently created Sextuple-A Framework with Dynamic Capabilities Theory (DCT). The results show that institutional agility—more especially, the ability to detect, seize, and reconfigure technical assets—acts as a substantial mediator in the relationship between digital leadership and labor market responsiveness. Traditional administrative leadership methods, limited architectural maturity, and administrators' lack of digital fluency are the main challenges noted. As a result, the study suggests the Sextuple-A Framework as a strategic path to improve institutional flexibility and digital maturity. These findings offer crucial proof that the Ministry of Labor and Skills and policymakers should coordinate vocational training with national economic reforms in order to lower structural unemployment and develop a workforce capable of spearheading Ethiopia's digital future
Keywords:
Agility Sextuple-A Framework Digital Leadership 4.0 Ethiopia TVTReferences
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