Collegiality

Quick meaning: Collegiality is a noun meaning collegial atmosphere; working with colleagues in an effective and cooperative manner.

Meaning

collegial atmosphere; working with colleagues in an effective and cooperative manner.

More Meanings

1. power and authority that is shared among peers, especially the sharing of collegiate power among Roman Catholic bishops.

Example Sentences

To what extent does collegiality still exist in the management here?

Second, most of the justices suggested that informal norms of collegiality and respect for the opinions of colleagues often resulted in deliberate efforts to find acceptable compromise.

Within a global law firm there is plainly a need for a common culture and collegiality: every lawyer a client deals with anywhere in the world is a representative of the firm and needs to exhibit common values. The teamwork which is critical to a global firm strategy is based on a collegial approach.

But collegiality does refer to a kind of sharing of authority between Rome and all the other local churches. Each bishop represents his own local church, and the pope represents the local church of Rome which, by tradition, exercises a primacy of love over all the other local churches and has become the church-of-last-resort in disputed questions.

Word Forms

• collegialities

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