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Production companies throughout the world are currently facing challenges with the extensive transformation of their processes with regard to digitalisation and other features of Industry 4.0. Simultaneously, traditional quality management processes must be significantly changed, and the umbrella term “Quality 4.0” is used to represent this transformation. Many companies, including Czech enterprises, are still struggling with the concept of Quality 4.0, as there are a lot of uncertainties, misunderstandings, and false approaches. Additionally, a lot of questions arise about how to provide an objective and comprehensive assessment of the company’s maturity or readiness for Quality 4.0. Therefore, the main objective of this article is to present our proposal of a framework and methodology on how to assess and measure the maturity level for the implementation of Quality 4.0. This proposal will be supplemented by a presentation of the main results obtained from a special field study, which was conducted at Czech production companies with the aim of obtaining a representative set of information showing their readiness to adopt Quality 4.0 and convert existing quality management systems into the new era. The authors also identify some research gaps, including the necessity to confirm the mutual relationship between the dimensions and items of Quality 4.0 and the sustainable development of companies or society.

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Efficient and effective implementation of quality management principles asks for a responsible approach from top managers' perspectives. A study of the current state of affairs in Czech organizations discovers a lot of shortcomings in this field that can be changed to vary managerial risks. The article identifies and analyses some of them and gives short guidance for appropriate treatment. Text of the article reflects the authors' experience as well as knowledge obtained from the systematic analysis of industrial companies' environments.

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The aim of this article is to create a customer typology on the travel market in the Czech Republic according to what way of travelling abroad consumers prefer. Quantitative research was used for conducting primary data, which were obtained through an online questionnaire survey in February 2022. The researched population consisted of residents of the Czech Republic, who are over 15 years old and travel abroad on holiday at least once a year (before Covid-19 pandemics). A total of 579 respondents completed the survey, from which 399 respondents travel abroad on holiday, remaining 180 interviewed people were excluded from the research as they do not travel abroad. All data were analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics program. Respondents expressed their agreement with a total of 14 statements depending on if they prefer individual or organised way of travelling abroad on holiday. Based on how they evaluated these statements they were divided into several segments, according to their common characteristics, using factor and cluster analysis. Four segments were defined for individual travel market: “Trendy travellers“, „Adventurers“, „Easy- going travellers“ and „Open-minded travellers“ and also four segments for the organised travel market: “Influenceable travellers“, „Indifferent travellers“, „Conservative travellers“ and „Loyal travellers“.

Abstract. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) concept is focused on understanding and managing the impacts a company has on the world around it, and doing so as a part of core business activities. CSR contains three parts: Profit (economical part), People (social aspects -employees and stakeholders) and Planet (environment). The papers deal with basic features, objectives and outputs of CSR concept in practical life of Czech enterprises. The main aim of the research was to define if organizations referring themselves as socially responsible do implement activities of all the three pillars equally and integrate them into their day-to-day activities.