THE CULTURE OF MANAGEMENT OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

Abstract

The purpose of the article is theoretical analysis and generalization of features of the Management culture of the Early Middle Ages, which will contribute to the enrichment of the humanities with new knowledge about the formation of a culture of governance at the stage of the birth of feudal society. Methodology. The methodological basis of the study is the dialectical principle of cognition, systemic, civilization, sociocultural, activity, historical approaches, significant provisions of the theory and history of society, its culture and management. Common scientific and interdisciplinary research methods are used: analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, comparison, generalization, formalization. The scientific novelty of the results obtained is to identify and systematically generalize the features of the Management culture at the Early Middle Ages. Conclusions. The existing stratification of society played an essential administrative and regulatory role in the system of management of the Middle Ages. In the European countries, there were such states: feudal church clerics, secular feudal knights, peasants, and burgers. For each of these states was characterized by its own culture, the sacred perception of the world, which had a significant impact on the formation of a culture of management. The emergence of feudal land ownership characterizes early Middle Ages, the appearance of the first forms of dependent population, barbaric and old feudal state formations (kingdoms), whose system of governance is hierarchical with the allocation of central, regional and local levels. In Western countries, these structures are rigidly centralized, eastern – soft and decentralized. In this period, religion played a leading role, and therefore management ideas were part of theology and scholastic philosophy, which is characterized by an assessment of management of moral and ethical religious positions. Sources that can be judged about the administration of feudal estates have become polycystic and barbaric truths, as well as regulations for managers. Many sources of Managerial culture were written from the standpoint of the state or the first person.