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.332) meant that higher degree of efficiency of docents in terms of being able to deal with the others during group lectures predicted higher ability to develop the necessary skills to implement new business knowledge in respondents’ organisations in Russia. F- ratio was equal to 11.091, implying very low likelihood of incidental variances within the model.
Relationship between the supervisor and participant of the Presidential Programme
The transfer of any knowledge depends on the sufficient level of understanding between the actors, as experienced in the Presidential Programme.
Based on the literature review it was assumed that the satisfaction of respondents depended also on the communications with the instructors and host-organisation’s supervisors. A good working relations, understanding and openness of communication between recipients and the supervisors of the host-organisations supposedly leads to the acquirement of new business knowledge and skills, to be implemented in the Russian home-organisation. The analysis of the online survey unveiled the following results.
The regression analysis revealed that the ability of foreign host company supervisors to express their ideas clearly had a statistically significant impact on the ability of respondents to develop the necessary skills to implement new business knowledge in their home-organisations in Russia during their internship at the foreign host-company (p = .001). Positive relationship with b-coefficient amounting to 0.331 implied that the higher the ability of foreign host company supervisors to express their ideas clearly the higher the ability of respondents to develop the necessary skills to implement new business knowledge in their organisations and vice versa. High value of F-ratio for the model (12.469) allowed to conclude that observed variances were not incidental. In the meantime, the abovementioned factor had no statistically significant impact on the respondents’ belief that Presidential Programme was helpful to their companies (p = .054).
The fact that foreign host company supervisors had a good command of the English language had no statistically significant impact on the ability of respondents to develop the necessary skills to implement new business knowledge in their home- organisation in Russia during their internship at the foreign host-company (p = .770) as well as on the respondents’ belief that Presidential Programme was helpful to their companies (p = .583).
The ability of foreign host company supervisors to get right to the point did not had a statistically significant effect on the ability of respondents to develop the
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