Collegiality

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The term collegiality refers to collegial cooperation .

For doctors in Germany, this meaning is defined in Section 29 of the Model Professional Code (MBO).

In professional life, the term collegiality is also used for behavior between employees. This means cooperative behavior and peacefulness in the workplace. The employer's assessment of collegiality is very important in job references . It also stands for camaraderie in the workplace, but in a modified form.

Collegiality as a constitutional principle

The collegiality is also the name given to a constitutional principle of the Roman Republic , according to which each magistrate office of cursus honorum be occupied by two or more equal colleagues had to mutually the right of intercessio had (prevention of an arrangement of colleagues). In contrast to the ancient tradition, most ancient historians today assume that collegiality only developed in the course of the first two centuries of the republic and was not introduced immediately after the abolition of the monarchy.

This principle also found its way into later constitutions . In the Republic of San Marino , two Capitani Reggenti, elected for half a year, are still at the head of the state. The division of power works in a similar way to that of the consuls of the Roman Republic over 2000 years ago. Likewise, the Swiss Federal Council, as the highest executive body of the Confederation, is divided between seven people, who all have their respective ministries, but only together form the government.

In the early modern period, the princely and were sized as princely firms and - Authorities chambers , the privy councilors and council committees - organized by the principle of collegiality. That is, decisions were made jointly through the creation of consensus or through majority voting. Fixed departments for the individual members of the colleges were not common and everyone had equal access to the prince. The chairman of a council was only primus inter pares .

See also

literature

  • Robert Bunse: The early censorship and the emergence of collegiality. In: Historia . Vol. 50, No. 2, 2nd Qtr., 2001, pp. 145-162, JSTOR 4436609 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sample professional regulations at the German Medical Association (as of 2006) ( Memento from September 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )