{"title":"Employees' Digital Competency Development in the Construction and Automotive Industrial Sectors","authors":"Anastasiia Mazurchenko, M. Zelenka","doi":"10.18267/j.cebr.284","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, many companies make a great deal of effort to take full advantage of digital transformation and stay ahead of their competitors. The influence of digitalisation on manpower development and human capabilities as well as on the business environment, in general, is especially noticeable in the construction and automotive sectors. That is why the main purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of new digital technologies on employee competency development in Czech construction and automotive companies. The quantitative methodology is based on primary data collection conducted from July through October 2020 using the CAWI method. As a result, 27 responses from Czech construction companies and 39 responses from Czech automotive companies have been gathered in Survio software, processed and analysed by using descriptive statistics and Pearson’s chi-square test of independence. The qualitative data analysis applied in this paper includes three semi-structured interviews with human resource managers of selected Czech companies in the automotive industry. The advantages and disadvantages of the Covid-19 pandemic situation from the point of view of human resource management and employee training have also been analysed in the presented case study. The findings in this paper confirm that creating a digitally ready workforce and changing the employees’ mindset towards the new style of doing their jobs remain significant challenges to deal with in the Czech construction and automotive industries. Implications for Central European audience: This paper focuses primarily on the training and professional development of people employed in the construction and automotive sectors, which have been highly affected by the ongoing digitalisation of business and the current Covid-19 pandemic situation. As the results further demonstrate, the widespread use of digital technologies can definitely help to enhance employees’ digital competencies. However, the employees still have to get used to a digitalised workplace. In such conditions, the role of human resource managers is key in the implementation of continuous training as part of the corporate culture. © 2022, Central European Business Review. All Rights Reserved.","PeriodicalId":37276,"journal":{"name":"Central European Business Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Central European Business Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.18267/j.cebr.284","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BUSINESS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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建筑和汽车工业部门员工的数字化能力发展
如今,许多公司都在努力充分利用数字化转型,并保持领先。数字化对人力发展和人力能力以及商业环境的影响在建筑和汽车行业尤为明显。这就是为什么本文的主要目的是评估新的数字技术对捷克建筑和汽车公司员工能力发展的影响。定量方法基于2020年7月至10月使用CAWI方法进行的初步数据收集。因此,在Survio软件中收集了捷克建筑公司的27份回复和捷克汽车公司的39份回复,并使用描述性统计和皮尔逊独立性卡方检验进行了处理和分析。本文采用的定性数据分析包括对捷克汽车行业选定公司人力资源经理的三次半结构化访谈。本案例研究还从人力资源管理和员工培训的角度分析了新冠肺炎疫情的优缺点。本文的研究结果证实,在捷克建筑和汽车行业,创造一支具备数字化能力的劳动力队伍和改变员工对新工作方式的心态仍然是需要应对的重大挑战。对中欧受众的影响:本文主要关注建筑和汽车行业从业人员的培训和专业发展,这些行业受到持续的商业数字化和当前新冠肺炎疫情的严重影响。研究结果进一步表明,数字技术的广泛使用肯定有助于提高员工的数字能力。然而,员工们仍然需要习惯数字化的工作场所。在这种情况下,人力资源管理人员的作用是实施持续培训作为企业文化一部分的关键。©2022,《中欧商业评论》。保留所有权利。
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