Politische Hochleistungsteams im Deutschen Bundestag

Members’ offices in the German Bundestag, like high-performance teams, have to cope with hyper-complex requirements due to the increased speed of political operations. Smooth interaction between members of parliament and their staff is critical for successful results. This practice-oriented publication illustrates how MPs’ office teams can develop into political high-performance teams and thus engage in professional political management. This is done by the author presenting five effective proactive and reactive practices. The book’s qualitative empirical investigation focuses attention on both the previous working methods used in parliamentary operations and what life is like within parliament from the perspective of organisational science. The author’s central finding of the ‘principle of chance’ illustrates its great relevance for a framework ideally suited to daily cooperation, because the acceleration of political constraints and decision-making pressures, and thus the challenges for the offices of members of parliament, will continue to increase, especially in times of rapidly advancing digitalisation.