Evolution of the administrative thought in the XX - the beginning of the XXI centuries: philosophical-pedagogical aspect

Observing the evolutionary way of development of administrative thought from ancient times to the present, the author of the article notes that it, like other socio-cultural phenomena, has survived and continues to experience more than one qualitative change, the so-called administrative revolution. A scrupulous analysis of modern scientific literature on philosophy, economics, sociology, pedagogy and other sciences led to the conclusion that the generally accepted concept of "administration" still does not exist, but the entire variety of definitions can be reduced to two poles of philosophical generalizations that correlate with scientific concepts of functional and personal aspects of the development of the management problem. The author of the article considers the development of scientific schools corresponding to these aspects in a broad socio-cultural context, revealing the conditions, key ideas, tendencies and abilities to meet the challenges of modern society. The results of the philosophical and analytical stage are supposed to be used as initial-premise knowledge in the pedagogical research of the problem of forming the managerial competence of future specialists by means of social and humanitarian subjects that make up the fundamental core of the content of higher education.