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Level of education of the employees
The level of education of employees in organisations indicates the level of abilities, readiness for change and learning, acceptance for innovations, internally and externally. Therefore, from the KT perspective the level of education was assumed to be affective also in case of Russian organisations. The survey results showed that the mean value of the employees with low level of education in respondents’ organisations amounted to 20.51 percent, the mean value of employees with medium level of education was 34.57 percent and those with high level of education was 47.91 percent.
Organisational environment
To disclose how the peculiarities in Russian organisations affect the organisational environment, the analyses of peculiarities of those organisations were carried out first. The details are presented in the chart below.
Chart 2: Pecularities of Russian organisations Progressive
16,3%
10,4%
13,3%
22,2%
8,9%
14,1%
90% 100%
5,9%
24,4%
25,2%
28,1%
11,1%
21,5%
22,2%
34,8%
9,6%
20,0%
24,4%
32,6%
32,6%
22,2%
14,1%
8,9%
17,8%
31,9%
27,4%
14,1%
32,6%
28,1%
9,6%
15,6%
Supportive
Stabile
Disruptive
Laisser-faire
Chaotic
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Existence of negative phenomena
Not at All Very Little 50/50 Somewhat To a Great Extent
Both positive and negative phenomena and processes within organisations exercise a severe influence on the OC and tend to affect the financial and organisational results of the organisation, in short and long terms. Research in countries such as Russia, going through processes of transformation, unrest and turmoil, showes that the
transfer of knowledge, targeted to imply free-market practices, often fails since negative
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