Program

Friday, 05 December 2025 (virtually)

Opening Session

• 08:15 – 08:30
  Joining the online call in MS Teams by participants

• 08:30 – 08:45
  Opening Ceremony
  Lukáš Copuš – Chair of the Organizing Committee of the PEMF Conference
  Peter Štarchoň – Dean of the Faculty of Management, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
  Štefan Tkáčik – Vice-rector for science and arts of the Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
  Jana Blštáková – Vice-president of the Slovak Academic Association for Personnel Management, Slovakia

Keynote Speakers Session

• 08:45 – 09:15
  Neeraj Yadav – QualiCon, India
  Emerging Opportunities and Challenges for Business Organisations in the Era of Digitalization
  
  Neeraj Yadav is a leading expert in Lean Management and Six Sigma with over 25 years of experience in driving operational excellence and performance improvement across industries. He has trained more than 25,000 professionals and provided consultancy to over 1,000 organizations, including several Fortune 500 companies. As a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and frequent international speaker, he focuses on advancing quality, productivity, and transformative organizational practices worldwide.

• 09:15 – 09:45
  John Dennis – International Lean Six Sigma Institute, United Kingdom
  From Continuous Improvement to Continuous Trust: The New Frontier of Waste Elimination and Flow in Transactional Systems
  
  John Dennis is an international thought leader at the intersection of Lean Six Sigma, Systems Thinking, and Blockchain Technology. As Chairman of the International Lean Six Sigma Institute (ILSSI) in Cambridge, he leads a global network of over 90 accredited partners in more than 40 countries, advancing operational excellence and digital transformation worldwide. Co-author of Lean Blockchain Systems Thinking, John pioneers the integration of blockchain’s transparency, traceability, and decentralization with Lean principles of waste reduction, flow, and value creation.

Individual Sessions

Session 1 – Chair: Peter Madzík

This session is supported by project VEGA (No. 1/0113/24):
Emerging digital technologies and their Influence on elimination of supply chain vulnerability – Building lean, agile, resilient and green supply chains in the age of unpredictable disruptive events (Principal investigator: Peter Madzík)

• 10.00 – 10.15
  Prabhat Rao Pinnaka, Senthilkumar Thiyagarajan, Probal Guha, Anand Chinnakannan
  How agentic AI workflows are reshaping dynamics of leadership, teams, and human-ai collaboration in supply chains
• 10.15 – 10.30
  Murat Bayram, Florian Struck
  Digital transparency: ESG challenges in metal supply chains
• 10.30 – 10.45
  Nadia Mtchedlidze, Zuzana Papulová
  Implementation of corporate strategy in era of Industry 4.0: A comparative study of Slovak and Georgian manufacturing firms
• 10.45 – 11.00
  Ján Papula, Oliver Schneider, Andrea Gažová
  The readiness level of quality 4.0 among German medium-sized companies in the sensor industry
• 11.00 – 11.15
  Dávid Smolka, Zuzana Papulová
  Evaluating enterprise’s readiness for Industry 4.0 implementation: A three-step process
• 11.15 – 11.30
  Silvester Krčméry
  Process management in the adoption of digital solutions: Lessons from healthcare for Industry 4.0
• 11.30 – 11.45
  Ján Papula, Zuzana Papulová, Andrea Gažová
  From digitization to transformation: Business process reengineering and AI-orchestrated governance in public administration
• 11.45 – 12.00
  Diana Bednarčíková, Andrea Gažová
  Integration of digital technology RPA as a tool for business process transformation in the context of Industry 4.0
• 12.00 – 12.30
  LUNCH BREAK
• 12.30 – 12.45
  Andrzej Palej
  Knowledge management strategies in the era of algorithms and data
• 12.45 – 13.00
  Jana Nemcová, Ľudomír Šlahor
  Digital transformation in fair value measurement: Simulation evidence from the residential real estate companies
• 13.00 – 13.15
  Tomáš Bohumel, Adam Gonšenica, Urban Kováč
  Decision-aligned early warnings of equity drawdowns: MLP vs. LSTM/GRU
• 13.15 – 13.30
  Nataliia Yehorchenkova, Oleksii Yehorchenkov
  Data-centric project portfolio management for urban transformation: Synthetic data as an enabler of digital leadership

Session 2 – Chair: Lukáš Copuš

This session is supported by project VEGA (No. 1/0330/25):
Human-centrism, resilience and sustainability of organizations in digital era: The role of organisational culture in human resources management practices (Principal investigator: Lukáš Copuš)

• 10.00 – 10.15
  Ciro Alexander Gonçalves da Silva, Ľubica Bajzíková
  Strategic human resource management and future competence development in the age of digital transformation
• 10.15 – 10.30
  Lucia Hudáková
  Digitalization of HR management and its impact on anti-corruption strategies
• 10.30 – 10.45
  Pascal Mangold
  Reimagining cross-border recruitment: How digital transformation challenges traditional integration paradigms in contemporary HRM
• 10.45 – 11.00
  Jaroslava Bučková, Judyta Przyłuska-Schmitt, Dorota Jegorow
  Digital onboarding and integration of new employees
• 11.00 – 11.15
  Bibiána Konáriková Mackovčínová, Silvia Treľová
  Generational perspectives in digital human resource management
• 11.15 – 11.30
  Melanie Angielsky, Lukáš Copuš
  Human-centred automation in logistics: The adaptive human-technology competence (AHTC) model for resilient digital transformation
• 11.30 – 11.45
  Tobias Reisberger, Philip Reisberger, Lukáš Copuš
  Human-centric digital transformation via organisational determinants: Structural predictors of artificial intelligence adoption in the digital workplace
• 11.45 – 12.00
  Christopher Danis, Vanesa Dobos
  Sustainable leadership and digital transformation in SMEs: A literature review
• 12.00 – 12.30
  LUNCH BREAK
  
• 12.30 – 12.45
  Tanja Rosenbaum
  Hybrid leadership and human–AI collaboration
• 12.45 – 13.00
  Lenka Papíková
  Talent, compensation and productivity: Workforce dynamics in shared service centres in Slovakia
• 13.00 – 13.15
  Dominika Hajičková, Zdenka Gyurák Babeľová
  Bridging strategy and practice of performance management in industrial enterprise
• 13.15 – 13.30
  Martina Mišáková, Augustín Stareček, Miloš Čambál
  Specifications for performance management and motivation of employees of generation Z
• 13.30 – 13.45
  Alica Kačmariková, Silvia Treľová, Bibiána Konáriková Mackovčínová
  Flexibility and work-life balance through remote work

Session 3 – Chair: Karol Čarnogurský

• 10.00 – 10.15
  Anna Drahan, Peter Kmeť, Martin Krajčík
  Generative AI in management education
• 10.15 – 10.30
  Barbora Gontkovičová, Slávka Bocánová, Erik Weiss, Tatiana Jurovčáková
  Graduate unemployment by field of study in the Košice region, Slovakia
• 10.30 – 10.45
  Cecília Olexová, Kristína Herzigová
  Environmental literacy for managerial and economic professions in Slovakia
• 10.45 – 11.00
  Bruno Sebastian Nagy, Peter Pšenák, Ľudmila Mitková
  Effect of local large language models on the ecological footprint in SMEs in Slovakia
• 11.00 – 11.15
  Tomáš Krahulec, Adrián Rajtár, Jakub Berčík, Peter Vaško, Patrik Jurčišin
  The impact of musical audio stimulation on the effectiveness of reels videos in online tourism communication
• 11.15 – 11.30
  Iveta Ubrežiová, Lukaš Vartiak, Štefan Tkačik, Emília Palkechová
  Corporate social responsibility and ESG reporting as a prerequisite for sustainable development in a global environment
• 11.30 – 11.45
  Yaroslav Umanskyi, Zuzana Gončárová
  How digital transformation shapes consumer behaviour in tourism
• 11.45 – 12.00
  Mária Vrábliková, Iveta Ubrežiová, Laura Jenkutová
  Evaluation of the creative potential and subjective quality of life in chosen Slovak region in context of the humanistic economics
• 12.00 – 12.30
  LUNCH BREAK
• 12.30 – 12.45
  Karol Čarnogursky, Anna Diačiková, Štefan Tkačik, Iveta Ubrežiová
  Research on the perception of selected scents by university students for the study of use in the field of aroma marketing
• 12.45 – 13.00
  Miroslav Reiter
  Benchmarking web performance and core web vitals: A quantitative analysis of Slovak websites
• 13.00 – 13.15
  Miroslava Knapková, Marlena Piekut
  Digital transformation of household work: A comparative study of technology adoption in Slovakia and Poland
• 13.15 – 13.30
  Barbora Mazúrová, Ján Kollár, Mária Kanderová
  Traditional values versus the digital age: A look at the use of technology in Slovak multigenerational households