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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“Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man or man independent of woman. For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman; but all things come from God.”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 11:11.
In v. 9, Paul wrote “Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.”
“Little Jesus, wast Thou shy
Once, and just so small as I?
And what did it feel like to be
Out of Heaven, and just like me?”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)