Metacommunications and Artificial Intelligence: The ECPF Approach for International Management

Introduction. The article addresses the development of metacommunicative competence among international management professionals amid rapid AI integration. Based on analysis of contemporary human-AI interaction research, it establishes theoretical foundations of metacommunication in cognitive heterogeneous environments and substantiates the eco-facilitative approach as a methodological basis for developing this competence in hybrid management contexts. Aim. The aim is to conceptualize metacommunication as a key mechanism for interacting with AI agents within interface-based reality, and to justify the application of ECPF approach for cultivating management competencies in international contexts and enabling interactions with agents of different nature. Methods. Interdisciplinary theoretical analysis (psychology, management, post-humanist philosophy, communication studies) combined with logical-semantic modeling, comparative analysis of classical and contemporary approaches to metacommunication, interpretive reconstruction to adapt eco-facilitative principles, conceptual modeling of managerial metacommunicative competence integrating scholarly source analysis, practice synthesis, AI interaction interpretation, and insights from educational experiments. Results. Human-AI interaction reveals the need for inter-agent sensitivity as capacity to coordinate hybrid dialogue. A metacommunicative competence model encompassing cognitive, communicative, and ethical components was developed, metacommunication as a meaning-making mechanism for responsible multi-agent management was established and tools for ECPF sessions and AI partnership simulations were proposed. Conclusions. Metacommunication as inter-agent sensitivity enables adaptive AI interaction through meaning-generation. ECPF approach provides ecologically balanced framework for facilitative leadership in hybrid organizations. The development creates methodological foundation for educational programs and next-generation management tools in human-AI environments.