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Improvement of the respondents’ knowledge about business as a result of participating in the Presidential Programme was determined by the ability to design, develop, defend and implement a strategic plan for respondents’ home-organisation in Russia, obtained by them during their internship at the host company, their interactions with the supervisor and other members of the staff in statistically significant manner (p = .021). The impact was positive (b = .147) and with F-ration equal to 5.124 the observed variances were very likely not to be incidental. As for increased knowledge of the foreign company’s business processes and internal organisation obtained via interaction with the supervisor, it had no statistically significant effect on the improvement of respondents’ knowledge about business as a result of participating in the Presidential Programme (p = .253).
The sufficiency of managerial competence to absorb the business knowledge provided by the supervisors and other members of the staff 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 between these was positive (b = .304), in other words, it implied increase or decrease of degree of respondents’ knowledge improvement as a result of respective increase or decrease of aforementioned sufficiency of managerial competence. F-ratio was very high (29.978), suggesting that observed variances were not incidental. In the meantime, the sufficiency of managerial competence to absorb the business knowledge provided by the supervisors and other members of staff during the respondents’ internship at a foreign host-company had no statistically significant impact on the change of the way of “doing things” as a result of respondents’ participation in the Presidential Programme (p = .402).
The condition of having developed the necessary skills to implement new business knowledge to respondents’ employers organisations in Russia was determined by the increased understanding of respondents on how to integrate various modules with other modules as a result of their interactions with the docents and fellow participants during the group lectures in a statistically significant manner (p = .014). Relationship between these two variables was positive (b = .308), meaning that one unit increase of the latter increased the former by nearly 31%. F-ratio of the model was quite high (7.367) and implied high probability of not incidental variations. Other variables, related to respondents’ interactions during group lectures, such as “During the group lectures my interactions with the docents and fellow participants increased my ability to
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