Organizational performance, as well as the performance of industrial enterprises, is affected by changes caused by technological progress and the overall societal situation. Industry 4.0 affords the transformation of the industrial economy to the digital economy. In addition to the mentioned important technological initiative, the organizational performance is determined by the pandemic situation related to the disease COVID-19, which shook the economy of many countries. Society-wide measures accelerated the implementation of Industry 4.0 elements in the management of organizations. The main aim of the presented research was to examine the employees’ perception of the impact of the Industry 4.0 implementation (digitalization) on the enterprise’s performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results confirmed that employees in various job positions perceive that Industry 4.0 positively affected the organization’s performance during the pandemic. The employees themselves contribute significantly to the enterprise’s performance, but their performance is limited by the number of tasks that the employer can assign to them during pandemic measures. Enterprise performance will be subsequently reflected in the financial condition, which is limiting for many areas of human resource management. Notably, satisfaction with compensation is an area that is a significant predictor of perceived corporate performance. The results also showed that the pandemic had a negatively perceived impact on employee compensation. For the sustainable management of human resources, the perception of remuneration by employees and the appropriate remuneration itself is an important challenge regarding the relationship between employees and the organization.

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This article examined Generation Z students’ personality traits and motivation as prerequisites for sustainable learning as well as the identification of relevant motivational factors in the educational process. The main goal of the research was to identify and analyze the dominant factors that affect the motivation and performance of Generation Z students in management study programs at a technical university. The identified factors were analyzed in relation to the personality traits and subsequently, the potential impact of the identified factors and personality traits on the learning outcomes of selected subjects was tested. The research sample was represented by Slovak university students while the research sample size was N = 132 respondents. The authors of the article used three standardized questionnaires. The first questionnaire was the Questionnaire NEO (Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Openness) five factor inventory version (with added factors (of agreeableness and conscientiousness), specifically two of the five factors: conscientiousness and neuroticism. The performance motivation questionnaires were also used to assess values, attitudes towards values and motivation. The statistical analysis of the collected data was processed in the statistics program SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). The findings proved relationships between motivation to perform and conscientiousness, performance inhibition and neuroticism and differences between students in different years of study.

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