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'''Colleagues''' are those explicitly united in a common [[purpose]] and respecting each other's abilities to [[work]] toward that purpose. A colleague is an associate in a [[profession]] or in a civil office.

'''Colleagues''' are those explicitly united in a common [[purpose]] and respecting each other's abilities to [[work]] toward that purpose. A colleague is an associate in a [[profession]] or in a civil office.

Thus, the word collegiality can connote [[respect]] for another's commitment to the common purpose and [[ability]] to work toward it. In a narrower sense, members of the [[faculty]] of a [[university]] or college are each other's colleagues; very often the [[word]] is taken to mean that. Sometimes colleague is taken to mean a fellow member of the same [[profession]]. The word college is sometimes construed broadly to mean a [[group]] of colleagues united in a common purpose, and used in proper names, such as Electoral College or College of Cardinals.

Thus, the word collegiality can connote [[respect]] for another's commitment to the common purpose and ability to work toward it. In a narrower sense, members of the [[faculty]] of a [[university]] or college are each other's colleagues; very often the [[word]] is taken to mean that. Sometimes colleague is taken to mean a fellow member of the same [[profession]]. The word college is sometimes construed broadly to mean a [[group]] of colleagues united in a common purpose, and used in proper names, such as Electoral College or College of Cardinals.

[[Sociologists]] of organizations use the [[word]] collegiality in a technical sense, to create a contrast with the concept of [[bureaucracy]]. [[Authors]] such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber Max Weber] consider collegiality as an organizational device used by [[autocrats]] to prevent experts and [[professionals]] from challenging monocratic and sometimes [[arbitrary]] powers. More recently, authors such as Eliot Freidson (USA), Malcolm Waters (Australia) and Emmanuel Lazega (France) have shown that collegiality can now be understood as a full fledged organizational form. This is especially useful to account for [[coordination]] in [[knowledge]] intensive organizations in which [[interdependent]] members jointly [[perform]] non routine tasks -an increasingly frequent form of coordination in knowledge economies. A specific social [[discipline]] comes attached to this organizational form, a [[discipline]] described in terms of niche seeking, [[status]] competition, lateral [[control]], and [[power]] among [[peers]] in corporate [[law]] [[partnerships]], in dioceses, in scientific laboratories, etc. This view of collegiality is obviously very different from the [[ideology]] of collegiality stressing mainly [[trust]] and [[sharing]] in the collegium.

[[Sociologists]] of organizations use the [[word]] collegiality in a technical sense, to create a contrast with the concept of [[bureaucracy]]. [[Authors]] such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber Max Weber] consider collegiality as an organizational device used by [[autocrats]] to prevent experts and [[professionals]] from challenging monocratic and sometimes [[arbitrary]] powers. More recently, authors such as Eliot Freidson (USA), Malcolm Waters (Australia) and Emmanuel Lazega (France) have shown that collegiality can now be understood as a full fledged organizational form. This is especially useful to account for [[coordination]] in [[knowledge]] intensive organizations in which [[interdependent]] members jointly [[perform]] non routine tasks -an increasingly frequent form of coordination in knowledge economies. A specific social [[discipline]] comes attached to this organizational form, a [[discipline]] described in terms of niche seeking, [[status]] competition, lateral [[control]], and [[power]] among [[peers]] in corporate [[law]] [[partnerships]], in dioceses, in scientific laboratories, etc. This view of collegiality is obviously very different from the [[ideology]] of collegiality stressing mainly [[trust]] and [[sharing]] in the collegium.