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the ability of the 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 = .445). In the meantime, the analysis revealed that the same fact had a statistically significant effect on the change of the way of “doing things” as a result of the respondents’ participation in the Presidential Programme (p = .024). Positive value of b-coefficient (0.233) implied that the increase in the former brought about increase in the latter and vice versa. Although F-ration for the model was high (5.220), there still was a small likelihood that the observed variances were incidental.
The ability of docents to say the right things at the right time 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 in a statistically significant manner (p = .005). F-ratio was high (8.199) suggesting that observed variances were almost definitely not incidental. B-coefficient, which was equal to 0.260, implied that the higher was the ability of docents to say the right things at the right time the higher was the ability of respondents to develop the necessary skills to implement new business knowledge in their organisations in Russia and vice versa. In the meantime, the abovementioned factor did not have a statistically significant effect on the change of the way of “doing things” as a result of the respondents’ participation in the Presidential Programme (p = .741).
The ability of the docents to express their ideas clearly 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 = .000). The F-ratio was very high (17.823) to omit the hypothesis of incidental variations within the model. The positive relationship between variables (b = .441) suggested that the higher was the ability of docents to express their ideas clearly the higher was the ability of respondents to develop the necessary skills to implement new business knowledge in their organisations in Russia and vice versa.
In the meantime, the abovementioned fact had no statistically significant impact on the change of the way of “doing things” as a result of the respondents’ participation in the Presidential Programme (p = .414). 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 =
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