Michael P. Thompson
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Michael P. Thompson is Associate Dean of the Marriott School of Management
Marriott School of Management
The Marriott School of Management is a business school located in Provo, Utah at Brigham Young University , a private university in the United States owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

 at Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

 (BYU).

In the past Thompson has served as Executive Director of the Public Service Training Program for the State of New York. He was also Executive Director of the Center for Organization and Policy Studies at the State University of New York at Albany. At BYU he has worked as a professor of organizational leadership and strategy development. He has also been an instructor in the Managers of Managers program at the Ross School of Business
Ross School of Business
The Stephen M. Ross School of Business is the business school of the University of Michigan. Numerous publications have ranked the Ross School of Business' Bachelor of Business Administration , Master of Business Administration and Executive Education programs among the top in the country and the...

 of the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

. Thompson joined the BYU faculty in 1988.

Thompson is a co-author of the textbook Becoming a Master Manager.

Thompson received his bachelors degree from BYU. He has a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...

.

Among works that Thompson has been a co-author of are "A Competing Values Framework for Analyzing Presentational Communication in Management Contexts" in Journal of Business Communications June 1991, Vol. 28, no. 3 and "Bridging Management Practice and Theory: New York State's Public Service Training Program" in Public Administration Review
Public Administration Review
Public Administration Review is a bi-monthly academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Society for Public Administration. The editor is Richard J. Stillman II....

Vol. 47, no. 4, July-Aug 1987.

Thompson is a Latter-day Saint.

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