Guide·Intermediate
How to Design a New Circle Structure for an Existing Organization
Sociocracy For All
A step-by-step Sociocracy For All guide for transitioning an existing organization into linked, nested circles.
Sociocracy
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Many Voices One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy
Sociocracy For All
A comprehensive Sociocracy For All handbook covering consent, circles, roles, meeting process, implementation, and examples.
Sociocracy
Template·Intermediate·New Zealand
The Loomio Co-op Handbook
Loomio Cooperative
An open handbook documenting how Loomio runs as a non-hierarchical worker cooperative.
GovernanceWorker cooperative
Tool·Intermediate
Circle Pattern
Sociocracy 3.0
The S3 pattern page defining a circle as a self-governing and semi-autonomous team that collaborates around a domain.
Sociocracy
Guide·Intermediate
Democratic Management: A Practical Guide for Managers and Others
Democracy at Work Institute
A DAWI guide to democratic management practices organized around power, information, people, and money, with tools and examples for worker co-ops and democratic workplaces.
GovernanceWorker cooperative
Guide·Intermediate
Designing Effective Systems of Evaluation and Accountability in Worker Cooperatives
Democracy at Work Network
A handbook for creating accountability and evaluation systems in small and medium-sized worker cooperatives.
Participation and employee voiceWorker cooperative
Guide·Intermediate
Double Linking
Sociocracy For All
A Sociocracy For All article explaining how leader and delegate links connect nested circles and support information flow.
Sociocracy
Guide·Intermediate·United Kingdom
Guide to Structuring Employee Ownership
Employee Ownership Association
A UK Employee Ownership Association and Postlethwaite guide explaining direct, indirect, and hybrid employee ownership structures, including EOTs and employee share ownership.
Choosing or comparing ownershipEmployee Ownership Trust
Case study·Intermediate
Hertzler Systems Inc.: A Case Study
Sociocracy.info
A case study of Hertzler Systems’ adoption of sociocratic meeting process, consent decision-making, and circle structure dynamics.
Sociocracy
Case study·Intermediate
Home Care by Self-Governing Nursing Teams: The Netherlands’ Buurtzorg Model
The Commonwealth Fund
A Commonwealth Fund case study on Buurtzorg’s self-governing nursing-team model and its relevance for care delivery.
Participation and employee voice
Case study·Intermediate
Morning Star: Mission Focused Self-Management
The Morning Star Company
Morning Star’s own description of its self-management model, built around personal missions, peer commitments, and human respect.
Participation and employee voice
Article·Intermediate
Sociocracy and Platform Co-op Governance
Medium
A practitioner article exploring how sociocracy can support platform cooperative governance, especially where scale, transparency, and member voice are difficult.
SociocracyPlatform cooperative
Article·Intermediate
Sociocracy in Large Groups
Sociocracy For All
A Sociocracy For All article explaining why large groups should not try to make every decision together and how circles can support scale.
Sociocracy
Article·Intermediate
The Cooperative AI Conference: When Workers Take the Wheel
Platform Cooperativism Consortium
A Platform Cooperativism Consortium reflection on cooperative AI, shared infrastructure, democratic governance, and worker-led technological agency.
GovernancePlatform cooperative