Paul Thompson (born 1 January 1951) is Professor of Employment Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He was formerly Professor of Organisational Analysis and Vice Dean Research at the University of Strathclyde.
Professor Thompson is one of the main theorists of
Labour process theory and is Convenor of the Steering Group of the International Labour Process Conference. He is on the editorial board and a former 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
Critical management studies (CMS) is a loose but extensive grouping of theoretically informed critiques of management, business and organisation, grounded originally in a critical theory perspective. Today it encompasses a wide range of perspective ...
.
References
1951 births
Living people
Academics of the University of Strathclyde
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