He considered GM as a representative institution of the "large mass-production plant," which had become America's social reality. However, GM was still far from achieving Drucker's ideal that the corporation should be an engine with which to achieve the greater good. GM's concept of employment was to churn out the highest volume of cars at the lowest possible cost. The role of the worker was to do as he was told and perform his assigned task on the assembly line with mindless monotony.