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.490), meaning that better understanding of knowledge exchange during group processes brought about better results in terms of developing necessary skills during the internship at the foreign host company. F-ratio for the model was very high (20.854) and hence observed variances were not incidental.
Well understood mutual process of knowledge exchange during the group process also had a statistically significant impact on the improvement of respondents’ knowledge of business as a result of participating in the Presidential Programme (p = .000). The impact was positive (b = .298), which meant that better understanding of knowledge exchange during the group processes resulted increase in terms of knowledge extension and improvement. F-ratio for the model was very high (18.883) and therefore observed variances were definitely not incidental.
To exploit their ability to access new information about business processes during the respondents’ internship at foreign host-company had statistically significant effect on the fact that respondents improved their knowledge about business as a result of their participation in the Presidential Programme (p = .000). Relationship was positive (b = .276) and F-ratio was very high (21.448), indicating that observed variances were not incidental. Therefore, it can be concluded that the better was the ability of respondents to exploit new information about business processes the higher was the degree of improvement of their business knowledge and vice versa. At the same time, the ability to exploit new information about business processes during the respondents’ internship at foreign host-company has no statistically significant effect on the change of the way of “doing things” as a result of the respondents’ participation in the Presidential Programme (p = .094).
The conducted analysis also revealed that a well understood mutual process of knowledge exchange during the internship in the foreign host company had a statistically significant impact on the improvement of respondents’ knowledge of business as a result of participating in the Presidential Programme (p = .000). The impact was positive (b = .247), meaning that better understanding of knowledge exchanged during an internship at the foreign host company resulted increase in terms of knowledge extension and improvement. F-ratio for the model was quite high (14.988) and therefore observed variances were definitely not incidental.
Nevertheless, well understood mutual process of knowledge exchange during internship in the foreign host company did not determine in a statistically significant manner the ability of respondents to change the way of doing things in their home- organisation as a result of participating in the Presidential Programme (p = .392).
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