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Designing Effective Systems of Evaluation and Accountability in Worker Cooperatives

A handbook for creating accountability and evaluation systems in small and medium-sized worker cooperatives.

Source: Democracy at Work NetworkAdded June 12, 2026Published 2014
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Why it matters

Worker co-ops need accountability systems that fit shared ownership rather than defaulting to conventional top-down supervision or avoiding feedback entirely.

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Co-ops designing peer evaluation, role accountability, and performance feedback systems.

This handbook addresses a common governance gap: how to hold one another accountable without recreating conventional hierarchy or avoiding hard conversations. It is hosted on an older DAWI site, so the link and appendices should be checked before publishing.

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