ABSTRACT
Since the big-business corporation has become America's representative social institution it must realize the basic beliefs of American society - at least enough to satisfy minimum requirements. It must give status and function to the individual, and it must give him the justice of equal opportunities. The demand for status and function as an individual means that in the modern industrial society the citizen must obtain both standing in his society and individual satisfaction through his membership in the plant, that is, through being an employee. The large corporation must offer equal opportunities for advancement. This is simply the traditional demand for justice, a consequence of the Christian concept of human dignity. Equal opportunity means obviously that advancement not be based on external, on hereditary or on other fortuitous factors. But it also means that advancement be given according to rational and reasonable criteria.
