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necessary skills to implement new business knowledge in their home-organisation in Russia during their internship at the foreign host-company (p = .054) as well as on the respondents’ belief that Presidential Programme was helpful to their companies (p = .097).
The ability of foreign host company supervisors to deal with the others effectively predicted 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 = .000) in statistically significant manner. Relationship was positive (b = .379), meaning that the higher ability of the foreign host company supervisor to deal with the others effectively predicted higher ability of the 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 (15.600) allowed to conclude that observed variances were not incidental.
The analysis showed that the ability of foreign host company supervisors to deal with the others effectively also had a statistically significant impact on the respondents’ belief that Presidential Programme was helpful to their companies (p = .015). With positive relationship between the variables (b = .237) it suggested that the higher degree of such ability predicted greater belief in the helpfulness of the Presidential Programme. F-ration was quite high (6.036), leaving only a 1.5 percent possibility that the observed variances were incidental.
The ability to assist in solving problems, based on their business competence during the respondents’ internship at foreign host-company did not have a statistically significant effect on the fact that respondents improved their knowledge about business as a result of their participation in the Presidential Programme (p = .862).
The ability of foreign company supervisors to say the right things at the right time predicted the ability of the 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 in a statistically significant manner (p = .000). F- ratio was very high (26.154) suggesting that the observed variances were not incidental. B-coefficient was equal to 0.449, implying that the higher ability of foreign company supervisors to say the right things at the right time predicted higher ability of respondents to develop the necessary skills and vice versa.
The analysis showed that the abovementioned factor had a statistically significant effect on the respondents’ belief that Presidential Programme was helpful to their companies (p = .007). The relationship between the variables was positive (b =
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