Expected Impact of a Digital Transformation on SMEs Competitiveness and Employees’ Competencies

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Expected Impact of a Digital Transformation on SMEs Competitiveness and Employees’ Competencies

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The companies‘ competitiveness in the digital transformation era is inextricably linked to the need for employees’ training, especially in digital competencies. This paper aims to determine whether digitalisation as a phenomenon of the current decade affects employees‘ skills and business competitiveness or would affect them sometime soon. The research was conducted in September 2019 by distributing printed questionnaires during a knowledge transfer week at the Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Liberec. Three research hypotheses were formulated and verified through the statistical methods of Pearson‘s Chi-square test and Mann-Whitney U test using IBM SPSS Statistics and Microsoft Office Excel. The research sample mainly included human resource (HR) managers or owners of chosen small and medium-sized enterprises (i.e., SMEs) operating in the Czech Republic. The pilot survey results show a statistically significant relationship between the use of digital technologies for everyday business activities and systematic employees‘ training in their use by selected Czech companies. However, effective use of digital technologies in daily practice was not found to depend on the company‘s size (i.e., the number of employees). Moreover, there was a statistically significant difference in the personnel and senior management‘s views on employees‘ readiness for work in an almost entirely digital workplace.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Expected Impact of a Digital Transformation on SMEs Competitiveness and Employees’ Competencies

Popis výsledku anglicky

The companies‘ competitiveness in the digital transformation era is inextricably linked to the need for employees’ training, especially in digital competencies. This paper aims to determine whether digitalisation as a phenomenon of the current decade affects employees‘ skills and business competitiveness or would affect them sometime soon. The research was conducted in September 2019 by distributing printed questionnaires during a knowledge transfer week at the Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Liberec. Three research hypotheses were formulated and verified through the statistical methods of Pearson‘s Chi-square test and Mann-Whitney U test using IBM SPSS Statistics and Microsoft Office Excel. The research sample mainly included human resource (HR) managers or owners of chosen small and medium-sized enterprises (i.e., SMEs) operating in the Czech Republic. The pilot survey results show a statistically significant relationship between the use of digital technologies for everyday business activities and systematic employees‘ training in their use by selected Czech companies. However, effective use of digital technologies in daily practice was not found to depend on the company‘s size (i.e., the number of employees). Moreover, there was a statistically significant difference in the personnel and senior management‘s views on employees‘ readiness for work in an almost entirely digital workplace.

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50204 - Business and management

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/TJ02000206" target="_blank" >TJ02000206: Rozvoj dovedností nezbytných pro digitální transformaci podnikání</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů