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The development of the necessary skills to implement new business knowledge in their home-organisations in Russia during their internship at the foreign host company had statistically significant effect 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 = .001). Observed impact was positive (b = .321), meaning that alumnae who have developed necessary business skills during their internship at the foreign host company could make better impact in terms of changing organisations they work for than those, who had been less successful in terms of accomplishing such requirements of Presidential Programme. F-ratio for the model was very high (11.645) and therefore there is very small probability for observed variances to be incidental.
Moreover, well understood mutual process of knowledge exchange during the group process determined the ability of respondents to change the way of doing things in their home-organisation as a result of participating in the Presidential Programme in statistically significant manner (p = .044). The impact was positive (b = .262), which meant that better understanding of knowledge exchange during group processes brought about better results in terms of changing the way things were done in the home- organisations of respondents. F-ratio for the model slightly exceeded the maximum which could be obtained in case of incidental variances (4.142) and therefore observed variances can be considered as not incidental.
The ability of respondents to change the way of doing things in their organisations in Russia as a result of participation at the Presidential Programme was appeared to be determined by the increased understanding of respondents on how to integrate various modules with other modules (p = .022) and their increased ability to ask penetrating questions about all modules as a result of their interactions with the docents and fellow participants during the group lectures (p = .49) in statistically significant manner. In both cases, positive relationship between mentioned predictor variables and dependent variable existed (b = .328 and 0.247 respectively). F-ratio for the model was also high (5.617) and observed variances were therefore not incidental.
The state of respondents’ home-organisations having benefited from the knowledge transferred by them was not determined in a statistically significant manner by the influence of the Russian culture on the organisation’s culture (p = .514), the influence of the Leaders’/managers’ culture on the organisation’s culture (p = .118), the influence of the male/female staff composition on the organisation’s culture (p = .633), the influence of foreign (non-Russian) workers on the organisation’s culture (p = .715), progressive organisational environment (p = .498), supportive organisational
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