Description William Whyte\'s core idea in The Organization Man is that the Protestant Ethic that characterized financial and personal success in American history had been replaced in modern times by the Social Ethic.
To investigate this idea, Whyte spent years interviewing the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies when he was an editor at Fortun.
This stressed the group as the source of creativity and emphasized that the greatest need of the individual is to belong to a group.
Description William Whyte\'s core idea in The Organization Man is that the Protestant Ethic that characterized financial and personal success in American history had been replaced in modern times by the Social Ethic