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innovations with the business sector and through the media. F-ratio, which is equal to 1.372, nevertheless suggests that observed variances in this model are likely to be incidental and have little statistical significance.
Other factors, already mentioned above, had no statistically reliable impact. The details are presented in Table 22.
Table 22: Openness and readiness to share and implement new ideas and innovations
Openness and readiness to share and implement new ideas and innovations, p-value
Openn Domin Domina Readine Opennes Sharing Sharing
Influence of the Russian culture Influence of the Leaders’/ma nagers Influence of the male/female staff Influence of foreign (non- Russian) workers Influence of the connections/ cooperation with global business
style of style
ess to ant innova manag tions ement
nt ss for commu innovati nication ons
to others
.649 .923
.275 .324
.706
innovations innovati with ons suppliers through
media .691 .028
.550 .948
.777 .764
.348 .631
.884 .226
.187 .698
.682 .458
.146 .681 .641.
596
.126 .487
.452 .156
.972 .996
.641 .596
.491 .760
.323 .524
To unveil whether the influence of both Russian culture and leaders’ or managers’ culture on the organisation’s culture determined in statistically significant ways the respondents’ attitude during the internship within the framework of the Presidential Programme the following variables were combined into the category “learning ability”: “During my internship at the foreign host-company, my managerial competence was sufficient to absorb the business knowledge as provided by the supervisors and other members of staff”, “During my internship at the foreign host company, I was able to exploit new information about business processes”, “During my internship at the foreign Host company, I was able to assist in solving problems, based on my business competence”, and “During my internship at the foreign Host company, I
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