Paul Thompson (professor)

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Professor Paul Thompson is the head of the department of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde Business School. ^[1] He 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. ^[2]

In his academic work Thompson has been critical of traditional managerialist approaches to organisation theory and the post-structuralist approaches of Critical Management Studies.