“…The key individual factor in our study is the individual's communist footprint. A key contextual condition for any working individual is their position level in the company: lower-level positions (non-supervisory staff and first-level managers) or higher-level positions (middle-and upper-level managers) (Ahearne, Lam, and Kraus, 2014;Fields, 2002;Neugeboren, 1991;Ralston et al, 2013). Different organizational levels present different "organizational requirements" (Neugeboren, 1991: 147) and, similar to other contextual variables, position works to restrict the observed range of salient organizational factors and to shape the base rates of key organizational variables over time (Johns, 2006).…”