Professor Paul Thompson (born January 1951) is the head of the department of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde Business School.
Professor Thompson is one of the main theorists of Labour Process Theory. He is also a contributing editor of Renewal, a journal committed to exploring radical social democratic policies in the British Labour Party.
In his academic work Thompson has been critical of traditional managerialist approaches to organisation theory and the post-structuralist approaches of Critical Management Studies.
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