Evolution of Views on the Managers’ Competence in Russia: Past and Present

Abstract

The paper compares the state and solutions to the problems of forming and assessing the competencies of graduates of the educational system in the field of management in Russia in 19th century with the conditions of the digital society of modern post-reform country. The study emphasizes the similarities and differences in ways to this topic both on the part of the educational community and from the business sphere. Why do similar problems arise again? What are the reasons for the divergence of ideas about the competencies of managers in the education system and in business? What government programs, as well as methods and technologies of teaching and learning, have tried in the past and are trying now to minimize the discrepancy between the needs of business for competent managers and training programs? The paper confirms the hypothesis that the Russian education system, both in the past and in the present, does not fully meet the expectations and business assessments in training management specialists. And this, in turn, confirms the spiral cyclical nature of the evolution of managerial thought.