Artificial Intelligence, Digital Competence, Digital Autonomy and Innovative Work Behaviour: An Empirical Study of Information Technology Professionals in Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

The study aims to determine the cause and effect among artificial intelligence, digital competence, digital autonomy and innovative work behavior towards information technology professionals in Uttar Pradesh, India. This research study employed an exploratory and descriptive research design. A web-based, structured Google form questionnaire was designed for the primary data collection from the information technology professionals. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire was checked using Cronbach's alpha, Bartlet test of significance and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) values. A convergent and discriminant validity was also checked for the four constructs as artificial intelligence, digital competence, digital autonomy and innovative work behavior using average variance extracted (AVE), composite reliability (CR) values, discriminant values. This study employed a sample size of 324 respondents. The correlation, regression enter method and the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) techniques were used to check the cause-and-effect relationship and simultaneously hypothesis testing.  The study's findings concluded that artificial intelligence, digital competence, digital autonomy had a significant effect towards the innovative work behavior among the information technology professionals in Uttar Pradesh, India. The SPSS 23.0 version software performed simple data entry, data coding, value label, descriptive, and frequency inferences, while SEM-AMOS 23.0 version statistical add-on software performed complex statistical calculations.