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Architecting the Sustainable Enterprise: A Cognitive Load Framework for Managing Next-Generation Workforce Integration

  • Mykhailo Zhylin1
  • Viktoriia Zhylina2
  • Kateryna Kryvobok3
  • Oksana Dubrova4
  • Oleh Pylypchenko5
5 affiliations
  1. 1Odessa National Maritime University, Odesa, Ukraine
  2. 2South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky, Odesa, Ukraine
  3. 3Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  4. 4National Transport University, Kyiv, Ukraine
  5. 5Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Abstract

This paper develops a novel conceptual framework targeting the strategic integration of the Generation Z workforce into sustainable enterprise architectures. Moving completely beyond descriptive accounts of youth digital habits, the study applies Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) to analyse how smartphone-driven cognitive configurations influence workplace performance and organisational design. Operating within the paradigm of emerging conceptual scholarship, the research executes a theoretical synthesis intersecting human resource management (HRM), cognitive psychology, and corporate sustainability metrics. It evaluates the acute structural mismatch between traditional, linear enterprise operations and the fragmented attention baselines of the next-generation workforce. The conceptual analysis reveals that immediate immersion in saturated digital environments induces a state of chronic extraneous cognitive load, which systematically disrupts professional schema construction and limits long-term working memory capacity. To mitigate this systemic institutional risk, the paper articulates a dual-implication blueprint: first, for organisational leaders to redesign digital workplace interfaces to optimise germane load; second, for management educators to transition from passive delivery models to experiential, high-context micro-learning systems. The study provides a highly distinctive and innovative contribution to sustainable HRM by operationalising cognitive load as a core determinant of workforce resilience. It redefines the social pillar of corporate sustainability not merely as ethical governance, but as the active preservation and optimisation of the cognitive human capital within the firm.

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@misc{zhylin2026architecting,
  title = {{Architecting the Sustainable Enterprise: A Cognitive Load Framework for Managing Next-Generation Workforce Integration}},
  author = {Mykhailo Zhylin and Viktoriia Zhylina and Kateryna Kryvobok and Oksana Dubrova and Oleh Pylypchenko},
  howpublished = {Zenodo},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23538752},
  url = {https://zenodo.org/records/23538752},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - UNPB
TI  - Architecting the Sustainable Enterprise: A Cognitive Load Framework for Managing Next-Generation Workforce Integration
AU  - Mykhailo Zhylin
AU  - Viktoriia Zhylina
AU  - Kateryna Kryvobok
AU  - Oksana Dubrova
AU  - Oleh Pylypchenko
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/20
PB  - Zenodo
DO  - 10.5281/zenodo.23538752
UR  - https://zenodo.org/records/23538752
AB  - This paper develops a novel conceptual framework targeting the strategic integration of the Generation Z workforce into sustainable enterprise architectures. Moving completely beyond descriptive accounts of youth digital habits, the study applies Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) to analyse how smartphone-driven cognitive configurations influence workplace performance and organisational design. Operating within the paradigm of emerging conceptual scholarship, the research executes a theoretical synthesis intersecting human resource management (HRM), cognitive psychology, and corporate sustainability metrics. It evaluates the acute structural mismatch between traditional, linear enterprise operations and the fragmented attention baselines of the next-generation workforce. The conceptual analysis reveals that immediate immersion in saturated digital environments induces a state of chronic extraneous cognitive load, which systematically disrupts professional schema construction and limits long-term working memory capacity. To mitigate this systemic institutional risk, the paper articulates a dual-implication blueprint: first, for organisational leaders to redesign digital workplace interfaces to optimise germane load; second, for management educators to transition from passive delivery models to experiential, high-context micro-learning systems. The study provides a highly distinctive and innovative contribution to sustainable HRM by operationalising cognitive load as a core determinant of workforce resilience. It redefines the social pillar of corporate sustainability not merely as ethical governance, but as the active preservation and optimisation of the cognitive human capital within the firm.
ER  -