Bambaeva Natalya Ya.

The article examines the role of the humanities knowledge in shaping the strategic thinking of civil servants amid the transformation of the public administration system. A humanities-based education is a key factor in the development of professional competencies among management personnel. This type of education encompasses philosophical, ethical, and cultural studies. This study examines the relationship between the level of humanities education that employees have received and their ability to engage in long-term planning, critical analysis, and make well-considered management choices.The authors place particular emphasis on communicative competence as a component of strategic thinking and on the spiritual and moral development of civil servants. They also highlight the importance of conceptual clarity regarding basic ethical categories. The results obtained make it possible to suggest new ways of integrating the humanities knowledge into personalized educational pathways using innovative adaptive learning technologies. The study shows that there’s a need for a well-planned, humanitarian approach to the ongoing professional training of state and municipal employees as a key management goal. This is even more important in the context of digital transformation in the civil service.

The article focuses on a thorough examination of the epistemological potential of an interdisciplinary approach in social and humanities research, taking into account the transformation of modern society and scientific knowledge. The study investigates the evolution of interdisciplinarity, from the first integrative attempts in classical sociologists’ works to contemporary research strategies in the context of a complex, nonlinear, and highly differentiated social reality. The authors provide a detailed analysis of the four fundamental conceptual «turns» in science that served as the foundation for interdisciplinary research methodology. The paper identifies key methodological innovations for each scientific «turn». The study organizes the epistemological benefits of interdisciplinarity as well as its drawbacks. The author categorizes interdisciplinary approaches into two groups: subjectively oriented and objectively oriented. The article focuses especially on the unique features of modern social processes that call for the use of interdisciplinary approaches. As a unique research object, the author believes that the Internet is a perfect place to test interdisciplinary approaches.

Figures on employment in agricultural organizations show that the number of labor resources occupying the positions of top managers and specialists has decreased by more than two times. First of all, the human resource potential of the agricultural sector is filled by involving the students engaged in agrarian specialties. Analysis of the number of students at universities in the areas of «Agriculture and Agricultural Sciences» for the period from 2016 to 2020 shows that the EGD(S) (enlarged group of directions and specialties) 35.00.00 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery growth rate was 7.7 %, for EGD(S) 36.00.00 Veterinary and Zootechnics growth rate was 4.3 %, and in general, for the entire branch of science it was 6.1 %. The growth rate of students is significantly influenced by the results of the regional policy in the field of agriculture The fixed effects model shows that the growth rate of the number of students is not affected by the growth rate of gross agricultural value added in the region. The key factor is the number of enterprises operating in agricultural production, while the importance of this factor in the current period is more significant than in the previous one. The growth rate of the number of students is higher, when the growth rate of agricultural enterprises in the region lowers.