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found to be reliable enough (ά = 0.772) to be combined into one variable. The combined variable “the role of the group lectures”, however, had no statistically significant impact on the ability of respondents to change the way of doing things in their home- organisation as a result of participating in the Presidential Programme (p = .122).
Nevertheless, a statistically significant effect of the attitude towards the role of the group lectures was found on the respondents’ attitude considering the Presidential Programme helpful to their companies (p = .037). Relationship in this case was positive (b = .303). F-ratio was equal to 4.442, which is high enough to conclude that observed variances were not coincidental.
The fact that the docents and the respondents did not have difficulties in understanding each other did not have a statistically significant effect on the fact that respondents improved their knowledge about business (p = .155) and on the change of the way of “doing things” (p = .302) as a result of their participation in the Presidential Programme as well as 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 = .123).
Difficulty in understanding docents’ written communication had no 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 = .357) as well as on the change of the way of “doing things” as a result of the respondents’ participation in the Presidential Programme (p = .723).
The degree of easiness of communication between the docents and the respondents did not have a statistically significant impact 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 = .192) and on the change of the way of “doing things” as a result of respondents’ participation in the Presidential Programme (p = .694).
The fact that docents and respondents were understanding each other when they were talking had 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 = .000). B-coefficient was equal to .258, indicating that better understanding between the docents and respondents predicted the higher degree of improvement of respondents’ business knowledge and vice versa. F-ration for the model was high (12.942), indicating that the model was very good and observed variances
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