Managing the Performance of Members of Parliament

For all the column inches devoted to politics and political management, very little is known about formal performance management within parliamentary political parties and how this compares with corporate approaches and theoretical best practice. With growing interest in the role of context, these organizations challenge underlying assumptions within the performance management literature. Specifically, (1) most performance management studies consider corporate careers and human resource management (HRM) processes to be the norm and (2) they overlook the political nature of work. This study considers how performance management might work in an intensely political environment.