Abstract
New jobs will be created because of the Industry 4.0 concept implementation needs, employers will require new, especially digital skills and abilities from their employees. There is a need to change teaching and educational techniques in all types of schools, and instead of being specialized narrowly in one area, education should focus on a much broader overview, as people need to be educated in systemic and interdisciplinary thinking at all types of schools, including nontechnical ones. The main goal of the study is to identify areas on which the content of education should focused on in the future in terms to Industry 4.0. As research methods, a questionnaire survey was conducted in Slovak companies during the period of February – June 2019 along with statistical methods. The survey was carried out by random selection, 350 companies were contacted with a return of 220 responses. The research outcomes declare that changes in workforce qualification structure related to the Industry 4.0 concept implementation should have a positive effect on increasing the competitiveness of companies and increasing production effectivity. Based on the results it is proposed the expected positive changes should be transformed into enforcing the vocational training in companies and structural changes within the Slovak educational system.
Highlights
Speaking, it will not be possible to manage the change of orientation to a new profession in a few weeks, retraining may take a year
According to Lipkova et al (2017) the demand for technology and integration has increased for general higher-level cognitive skills such as complex problem solving, critical thinking, and advanced communication which are transferable across jobs but cannot be acquired just by training
The main goal of the paper was to analyze the impact of education system in Slovak Republic and Industry 4.0 within the new jobs creation issue and the task was to identify the areas on which the content of education should be focused in the future in relation to Industry 4.0
Summary
It will not be possible to manage the change of orientation to a new profession in a few weeks, retraining may take a year. Gärtner et al (2017) and Jeníček (2016) concede that it turns out that those forms will need to be developed and used, but a combination with contact teaching will be still necessary, as social contact between students and teachers is very important This fact affected the education system and moved it to the online space, which will have already been experienced by teachers and students, opening up space for changes in education system. Thats why the paper offers an attempt to figure out a kind of synergy between the necessary education system changes within the Industry 4.0 concept implementation As research limitation there can be mentioned issues such as: some questioners from the survey had to be void, some answers were not relevant, statistical data varies depending on the source being used, each organization has different approach how to process data and information comparison may not be too accurate
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