Collegiality is the relationship between colleagues, especially among peers, for example a fellow member of the same profession.
Colleagues are those explicitly united in a common purpose and, at least in theory, respect each other's abilities to work toward that purpose. A colleague is an associate in a profession or in a civil or ecclesiastical office. In a narrower sense, members of the faculty of a university or college are each other's "colleagues".
of use the word 'collegiality' in a technical sense, to create a contrast with the concept of bureaucracy. Classical authors such as Max Weber consider collegiality as an organizational device used by autocrats to prevent and
However, after two centuries of bureaucratization, at least in Western societies and economies, it isn't easy to find truly collegial organizations. Collegiality can be found in collegial pockets within bureaucratic organizations (Lazega & Wattebled, 2011), and the combination of both ideal-types (bureaucracy and collegiality) has been labeled 'bottom-up collegiality', 'top-down collegiality', and 'inside-out collegiality', leading to the identification in a society of oligarchies using collegiality as organizational ratchets for self-segregation in social stratification (Lazega, 2020).
In the Roman Republic
In the
Roman Republic, collegiality was the practice of having at least two people in each magistracy in order to divide power among several people and check their powers, both to prevent the rise of another king and to ensure more productive magistrates. Examples of Roman collegiality include the two
Roman consul and
Roman censor, six
praetors, eight
, four
, ten
tribunes and
decemviri.
Exceptions include extraordinary magistrates, Roman dictator and the magister equitum.
In the Catholic Church
In the Catholic Church,
collegiality refers primarily to "the Pope governing the Church in collaboration with the bishops of the local Churches, respecting their proper autonomy."
[ This had been the practice of the early Church]
See also
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Collegium (ministry)
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Directorial system
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Social network analysis
Notes
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Lazega, Emmanuel (2001). The Collegial Phenomenon: The Social Mechanisms of Cooperation Amon Peers in a Corporate Law Partnership, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lazega, Emmanuel 2020). Bureaucracy, Collegality and Social Change, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Lazega, Emmanuel and Wattebled, Olivier (2011), "Two definitions of collegiality and their inter-relation: The case of a Roman Catholic diocese". 53, Supplement 1, pages e57-e77.
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Gallagher, Clarence (2004). Collegiality in the East and the West in the First millennium. A Study Based on the Canonical Collections. The Jurist, 2004, 64(1), 64–81.
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Lorenzen, Michael (2006). Collegiality and the Academic Library. 7, no. 2 (Summer 2006).
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