Godric Bader obituary | Enterprise
My father, Godric Bader, who has died aged 98, was a passionate advocate of widespread possession in business. Guided by his beliefs as a Quaker, he sought the entire transformation of business, to result in peace and justice on this planet. For him, widespread possession meant that companies ought to be directed for the good thing about all workers, and run in accordance with clear moral, non secular, social and environmental values.
Godric was born in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, one of many 5 kids of Dora (nee Scott) and Ernest Bader. His father, a Swiss émigré, had moved to the UK in 1912. He settled in east London and began in enterprise as the only agent for a Swiss producer of celluloid. In 1926, the enterprise expanded to the purpose when he acquired premises in Stratford for chemical manufacture. These premises had been destroyed by bombing in 1941. The enterprise, Scott Bader, was then moved to its current web site in Wollaston, Northamptonshire.
Godric was educated on the Associates’ faculty, Saffron Walden, and Queen Mary Faculty, London. He adopted his father’s instance in claiming exemption from wartime army service on conscientious grounds. He was despatched to the west nation for agricultural work, however later selected to hitch the Associates’ Ambulance Unit as a medical orderly.
Having thought of and rejected a medical profession, he determined to hitch his father within the household enterprise as a polymer chemist. Quickly he was drawn into discussions together with his father regarding possession of the corporate. Ernest had developed his firm into a really profitable enterprise, however he recognised and feared the ability he had over the lives of these he employed to be “wage slaves”. This concern led Ernest and Godric in 1951 to position the possession of the corporate into a brand new belief with a visionary structure – the Scott Bader Commonwealth – that considered workers as equal and important companions within the enterprise.
In 1956, Ernest appointed Godric managing director of Scott Bader, through which position he remained till he additionally assumed from his father the chairmanship of the corporate in 1966. This was a interval through which Scott Bader was a world pioneer within the growth and use of unsaturated polyester resins.
In 2014, Godric and the Scott Bader Commonwealth had been collectively awarded the Gandhi Basis’s Worldwide Peace award in recognition of their different enterprise mannequin. The centenary celebrations of Scott Bader in 2021 additionally marked 70 years of widespread possession.
Godric was a really mild, variety and considerate man. His hobbies had been snowboarding and swimming, however his pastime horse was all the time round something that will make the world a greater place.
His first spouse (my mom), Doreen (nee Cox), died in 2000. In 2004 he married Anne Atkinson-Clark. Godric is survived by Anne and me, and by his grandson, Harry.
