Perception of Employees Educational Activities Effectiveness from Different Generation Groups in Industrial Enterprises

Provision of educational activities is a tool for sustainable human resources management that motivates employees and affects their performance. The educational activities offered by employers should be differentiated not only according to the job title and employeŕs needs, but it should also reflect the specifics of an individual generation group. The main aim of the article is to present the results from the field of perceived effectiveness of educational activities according to the employees different generations in industrial enterprises. The research sample consisted of n=1471 respondents. The respondents were the employees from the industrial enterprises located in Slovakia. Collected data were evaluated using quantitative statistical methods and the results of the research brought a view of current state of educational activities in related industrial enterprises. The research has shown that generation of Baby boomers has the lowest proportion on realised educational activities (19%) and the generation X considers the conducted educational activities ineffective. The largest proportion of all responses (893) reported that the education was partially effective which offers opportunities for corrective measures. The evaluation of established research hypotheses revealed statistically significant relationships among generations and effectiveness (r=0.295, r=0.394).