Testing for indirect and main effects. In the following sections a hierarchical linear modeling analysis is used to test for H3. This type of analysis makes it possible to estimate the variance between organizations and discretely the variance between employees within the same organization. This multilevel regression analysis includes the hierarchical structure of the organization and the intercepts are included as random effects. Before testing for a mediated effect three conditions must be met: the independent variables must affect the mediators, the independent variables must affect the dependent variable and the mediators must affect the dependent variable (Baron & Kenny, 1986). The following analyses are conducted while controlling for gender, working experience, country, management position and organizational size.