We examine the degree of job commitment and job satisfaction within three different corporate sectors: large, nationally recognized firms (defined as industry leaders by theFortunemagazine survey), regionally based multi-establishment firms, and firms with local operations only. Commitment and satisfaction in large, nationally recognized companies are lower than in locally based companies, even after relevant job and individual characteristics are controlled. The strength and pervasiveness of these negative findings are interpreted in terms of the close supervision, pressured working environments, and deskilling of jobs typical of the leading firms, and in the apparent failure of these firms' efforts to manipulate their symbolic environments. The vision of the large, nationally recognized corporation as the home of the committed organization man is not supported. We discuss the implications of these results for future research on segmented labor markets.