Gerard Endenburg

Gerard Endenburg

Gerard Endenburg (* 1933 in Rotterdam ) is a Dutch entrepreneur and author who shaped the implementation of a form of sociocracy .

Life

Endenburg went to school in the Werkplaats Kindergemeenschap in Bilthoven and was a student of Kees Boeke .

After studying engineering, doing military service and starting his career at Philips as a developer, Endenburg took a job in his parents' electrical engineering company in 1968, which he later managed. His parents founded the company shortly after World War II and saw it as a way of implementing their ideas about management and industrial reform. He then applied his governance model there, the sociocratic circle organization method . He built on Boekes' idea of sociocracy , a participatory organizational method based on self-organization based on the principle of consent .

Consent stands for consent or approval, not for consensus within the meaning of (general) unanimity. In this model, the absence of arguments supported by objections is the basis for decision-making. The model merely pretends that there is no serious and argued objection ; decisions made by a majority or authoritarian are also possible, provided that the method of decision-making with consent has been selected. Other authors speak of “decision-making through integrative emergence” rather than “decision-making based on consent” in order to emphasize the process of integrating multiple perspectives into a higher whole.

In 1978 Endenburg founded the Sociocratisch Centrum Nederland . He published several books on the subject of sociocracy and obtained his doctorate on the subject in Delft in 1992.

After his doctorate, he continued to head the Sociocratisch Centrum Nederland . Since 1998 he has also been teaching at the Faculteit of Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde at Maastricht University .

literature

Book publications

• Gerard Endenburg: Sociocratie als sociaal oderwerp , proefschrijft, Eburon, Delft, 1992 (in English Sociocracy as Social Design: its characteristics and course of development, as theoretical design and practical project , translation by Murray Pearson, Eburon, 1998, ISBN 90-5166- 604-7 )
• Gerard Endenburg: Sociocratisch Manifest (Sociocratic Declaration), 1984
• Gerard Endenburg, Jasper Lindenhovius, Clive Bowden: Sociocratie, de Organisatie van de Besluitvorming , 1981 (English translation Sociocracy, the organization of decision-making: 'no objection' as the principle of sociocracy , Eburon, 1998, ISBN 90-5166-605 -5 )
• Gerard Endenburg: Sociocratie, een redelijk ideaal , 1975

Articles and book contributions

• Gerard Endenburg: Sociocracy. The royal road between dictatorship and democracy , Jürgen Fuchs (ed.): The bio-cybernetic model: companies as organisms. Gabler 1992 (2nd edition 1994), ISBN 3-409-19167-4 .

Web links

• John A. Buck, Gerard Endenburg: The creative forces of self-organization , Sociocratisch Centrum, Rotterdam, in the translation from Dutch by Isabell Dierkes, version from May 2006, online (PDF; 753 kB)
• Beyond democracy (video) online
• "The ideal world" article on sociocracy in the business magazine Brand eins , issue 01/2009 ( online HTML - PDF )
• Nonviolent control by JA Buck and G. Endenburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John A. Buck, Gerard Endenburg: The creative forces of self-organization. (PDF) Sociocratisch Centrum, Rotterdam, May 2006, accessed on July 17, 2010 (translation by Isabell Peters). P. 25 
2. ^ The sociocratic circle organization method. Equal - connected - self-organizing. (PDF) Sociocratisch Centrum, accessed on July 17, 2010 (translation from Dutch by Isabell Dierkes). P. 8 
3. ↑ Dennis Wittrock: What does "integral organization" mean? Sociocracy, Holacracy and the Evolution of Human Organizations. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: integrale perspektiven 5/2007. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 17, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   P. 6  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
4. ↑ Wetenschappelijke gebeurtenissen aan de UM, Agenda November 1998. (No longer available online.) Maastricht University, archived from the original on August 25, 2005 ; Retrieved July 17, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.