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Questionnaire for the Alumni of the Presidential Programme
Section A of the questionnaire is concerned with respondent’s demographic, personal, economic data, and data regarding their present work environment. The questions were formulated based on the works of Hofstede (1994), Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner (2011), Denison and Neale (1996), Patten (2001). Section B questions about characteristics of the organisations derived from Hofstede (1994), Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner (2011), Denison and Neale (1996), Amabile, Conti, Lazenby, and Herron (1996) were included. Section C contained questions concerning the influence of NC on the KT process (Denison & Neale, 1996; Kauser & Shaw, 2004). Section D included questions concerning the influence of OC on the KT process (Trompenaars & Hampden-Turner, 2011; Vaara, Stahl & Björkman, 2012). In Section E questions on knowledge related themes, such as KT, ACAP, Shared Understanding, Arduous Relationship, Intrinsic Motivation, Extrinsic Motivation, Communication Encoding Competence, Communication Decoding Competence, and Source Creditability were asked (Minbaeva, Pedersen, Björkman, Fey & Park, 2003; Kim, 2004).
Backgrounds of the questions of the “alumni” questionnaire
Section A: Personal information on the participants
In section A of the questionnaires, the participants were asked about names, gender, age, the name of the home-organisation. The year of participation in the advisory programme, their position in the home-organisation.
Section B: Information on the home-organisation
In section B questions regarding the type of goods and/or services delivered by the home-organisation, number of employees in the organisation, turn-over in categories were included.
Section C: Culture of the home-organisation
Questions, related to the components and characteristics of the home- organisation were included.
Section D: Effects of the OC on the KT process
This section was aimed to unveil the dominant style of management in the home-organisation; the dominant style of the internal communication in the home- organisation; the level of trust among employees in the own department the home-
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