The aim of the paper is to increase the motivation of organisations by providing the varieties of forms of education and the possibility of choosing the form of education for a specific educational activity. The focus of the paper is on two basic forms of education, full-time and distance learning. The centre of our attention is distance education, in terms of the conditions and implementation aspects of electronic corporate education in the Slovak Republic. Two methods were used in the empirical research: the questionnaire method and the interview. Respondents were selected from two sections of the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities – NACE (Rev.), Section C and Section G, 120 respondents in each section. Despite the digitalisation of the economy and education, respondents as well as authors believe that in the future, the corporate education after the pandemic will return to full-time education and development of blended education.

Implementation of new technologies and processes influences the changes of many company processes. Some activities change, new ones appear, and others disappear due to gradual digital transformation. This process does not necessarily lead to complete transformation into a digital environment. Each company is unique therefore, its digital transformation is specific too. The result is a hybrid environment combining the digital and analogue world leading to the necessity to select appropriate employees and prepare their further professional training as well. The employees, on the one hand, must demonstrate certain competencies and experience necessary to make the digital transformation a success story and on the other, they need to be prepared for new digital technologies and modern work processes. The paper characterised the development of employees from the perspective of individual and/or team training. Within this scope, it describes various types of training. The empirical research focuses on the necessity of various training activities and their preference in the period of transforming the economy to Industry 4.0.

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the types and forms of continuing vocational education applied in selected Slovak companies and their benefits for employee performance. The basic concepts, i.e. compulsory and voluntary vocational training of employees, obligations of the employer and the employee related to these forms of education are defined in the paper in accordance with the law. Most of the mandatory trainings are intended for all employees of a given employer entity and concern occupational safety and health, first aid, fire protection, as well as trainings focused on regular verification and renewal of employees' skills. Voluntary educational activities are based on the interests and needs of employees. Questionnaire and interview methods were applied in the empirical research. The target number of respondents selected from two divisions of the statistical classification of economic activities in the Slovak Republic was 120. The research results presented in the tables show the types and forms of education/training applied in the analyzed companies, classified by the number of participants, duration and repetitiveness of the training. The research results confirm that mandatory training courses are organized in all the companies surveyed, while voluntary continuing education in these companies is most often conducted as a one-time educational activity of short duration.

While the issue of environmental protection and sustainable development has been richly explored in theory, the practical implementation of the rules and principal into social life and enterprise practice has remained neglected. The paper focuses on environmental education, whose aim is the changeover in thinking and attitudes of the present-day economically active population and that of the young generation. Environmental education is to be understood from the conceptual aspect as an organic part of the entire complex of education and training, not excluding further professional education. Environmental education is not the most recent issue: formal education has been dealing with the nature protection and care for the environment since the 1970-ies. Environmental education is promoted in all types of schools, either in direct in-class instruction or indirectly through special interest (hobby) education. It is essential to pass from the theoretical analysis and discussions about environmental problems to their utilisation in practice. An important role in this process is played by managers. The focus of our empirical research is on attitudes, opinions and environmental thinking of line managers. The paper is a partial outcome from the nation-wide research project scheme VEGA, No. 1/0328/21: ‟Post-pandemic Business Management: identification of temporary and sustainable changes in sequential and parallel management functions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic”.

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