The result is a structured web representing the division of labor. Each employee is accountable to someone higher up in the chain of command, right up to the chief executive. The chief executive, of course, is accountable to the shareholders. Each employee plays a particular role in the working of the corporation which aims at the overall success of the company. Like a football team, the successful corporation requires the best possible contribution from each worker, but no single employee can carry the team.
Individual success is futile if the corporation fails.
Just as a star player's efforts are wasted when his team has a losing season, a single employee might be the best accountant in town, but that won't matter if the company can't sell its product. Each contributes to the good of the whole - individual achievement is valuable only to the extent that it contributes to collective success. Corporatism as a commercial mode parallels communitarianism as a social theory. In the corporation, each employee is supposed to think of individual needs in terms of the needs of the company. I'm not suggesting that corporations are communitarian governments.