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The conducted regression analysis showed that the fact that docents and respondents were solving problems in a similar way had a statistically significant impact on the fact that the respondents improved their knowledge about business as a result of their participation in the Presidential Programme (p = .020). B-coefficient being equal to 0.166 suggested a positive relationship, meaning that increase in the degree of such problem-solving similarities determined the increase in the degree of improvement of respondents’ business knowledge and vice versa. Although the F-ration for the model was high (5.570), it, nevertheless, left 2 percent likelihood that the observed variances were incidental.
The fact that docents and respondents were solving problems in a similar way had also a statistically significant effect on the change of the way of “doing things” as a result of respondents’ participation in the Presidential Programme (p = .011). The relationship was positive (b = .322), suggesting that more similarities in problem solving by docents and respondents brought about broader subsequent changes in the way of “doing things” in the respondents’ companies. The value of F-ration (6.704), however, did not allow to conclude that there was absolutely no room for possibility that the observed variances were incidental.
In the meantime, the abovementioned fact had no statistically significant effect on the ability of respondents to develop the necessary skills to implement new business knowledge in their home-organisation in Russia. The regression analysis showed that the fact that lecturing docents were able to deal with others effectively had a statistically significant effect 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 relation in this case (b = .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.
In the meantime, the abovementioned factor had 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 = .765). The fact that the docents and the respondents had simulating prior experience in business processes did not have a statistically significant impact on the fact that respondents improved their knowledge about business as a result of their participation in the Presidential Programme (p = .253) as well as on
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