THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTSOF THE CORPORATE EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING SYSTEM
Introduction. The article presents the theoretical and methodological aspects of the corporate education system. The purpose of the article is to show what theoretical foundations and methodological concepts serve as the base of the corporate education system. Methodology. The study was carried out involving theoretical and empirical methods to analyze the development of the educational corporate space in the context of digital transformation and the influence of the labor market and the education market in the area of generational change and development in the learning paradigm. Results. The findings consist in studying the activities of organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, which significantly accelerated the process of digital transformation and identified new challenges for the corporate education system. The identified changes determine the adjustment and updating of the theoretical and methodological foundations for the development of the corporate education system. Conclusion. The authors note that there has been a significant evolution of the concept of corporate education from narrowly understood internal training to a part of an organization’s ecosystem aimed at developing human capital, not only in the area of professional competencies, but also wellbeing competencies, which affects a comfortable existence of a person in the surrounding world. As for the methodological aspects of corporate education, the authors consider it important to note the basic principles of andragogy (adult learning), the use of all types of education in the concept of lifelong education, the format of the corporate university as the most flexible and responsive to the challenges of the VUCA world, and, finally, the impact of Gen Z’s requests upon corporate pedagogy.