The article is devoted to the study of the practice of HR managers’ psychological and pedagogical competence formation in institutions of higher education. The analysis of these practices was carried out on the example of higher education institutions of Ukraine and China. The purpose of the article is to reveal the advantages and disadvantages of the formation of psychological and pedagogical competence of HR-managers in universities in order to understand their essence and, in future, to develop recommendations for their correction. The results of the analysis of the scientific and pedagogical literature, which presents the investigated problem from different perspectives, are highlighted. The analysis of regulatory documents in the sphere of higher education system functioning in Ukraine and China was performed. The educational programs of the first (bachelor’s), second (master’s) and third (educational and scientific) levels of higher education of the best universities of Ukraine and China were analyzed and their features were identified. The conducted analysis shows that the formation of psychological and pedagogical competence at the level of initial professional training of HR-managers is insufficient, is not systemic, aimed at the formation of its individual components, which justifies the need for its formation in the process of corporate training organization.