Introduction. Managerial education plays a crucial role in today’s dynamic world. It is influenced by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, economic integration, demographics, information and communication technologies, the global search for goods and services, social responsibility, governance, and sustainability.
Problem Statement. The culture, traditions, and unique features of educational systems are the heritage of every country. The primary task is to preserve them while also stimulating their development. At the same time, open labor markets and the right of citizens to free movement (particularly within the European Union) create the basis for defining and forming the knowledge, skills, and abilities of managers that would be universal for all countries. Therefore, studying the foreign experience of professional manager training in various countries determined the relevance of this research.
Purpose. The purpose of the article is to study the features of professional manager training in leading countries of the world.
Materials and Methods. Various research methods were used to achieve this goal, including historical, synthesis, comparison, and generalization. Additionally, statistical methods were applied to analyze trends in professional manager training, and a tabular method was used for the visual representation of the results.
Results. It was found that the structure of global higher education for professional manager training is diverse, but two trends dominate: a single system where professional managers are trained by universities or equivalent institutions (Italy, Spain, Austria, Finland, Sweden); and a dual system with both a traditional university and a non-university sector (USA, Belgium, Great Britain, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Germany, France, Switzerland). MBA programs are considered prestigious for manager training. An analysis of the trends in professional manager training at the bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD levels was conducted.
Conclusions. The reviewed foreign experience of professional manager training in leading countries, which considers historical chronology, formalizes the stages of this process’s development, and generalizes and compares educational systems, indicates a process of transformation.
The analysis of trends in professional manager training shows that the share of graduates at the bachelor’s level ranged from 12.5 % to 29 %; at the master’s level from 10.1 % to 31.9 %; and at the PhD level from 2.9 % to 12.8 %. Studying the experience of professional manager training in developed foreign countries opens up new opportunities for improving the system of training such specialists in Ukraine as it adapts to globalization and European integration.
