Post-communist Burden Influence on the Perception of Crea-tive Identities: Consequences for Managers and Leaders

Purpose: Communism, being one of the most repressive systems, influences whole spec-trum behaviors individuals, groups, and society. Countries that changed their politi-cal system start a journey external (economic, social) internal (personal, interper-sonal, group) changes. The post-communist burden determines human behavior, man-agers leaders should pay attention to these consequences. research deals with perception creative identities (a creator, artist, manager, entrepreneur, leader) by society countries compared without communist history. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitive (n = 160) among people from dozen nations; chi-square test independence used; qualitative analysis feature differences. Findings: There are no statistical differences in leader between citizens non-communist countries. Practical implications: study particular might have practical implications for managers business organiza-tions dominated or not individuals. These shown detail, links this results literature built. Originality value: originality lies conclusion societies finished intercourse communism more than generation ago (ca. 30 years) be perceived similarly societies. Perception indi-viduals' social capital does show essential discrepancies.