Professor Paul Thompson is the head of the department of Human Resource

Human resource management

Human Resource Management is the management of an organization's employees. While human resource management is sometimes referred to as a "soft" management skill, effective practice within an organization requires a strategic focus to ensure that people resources can facilitate the achievement of...

 Management at the University of Strathclyde

University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde , Glasgow, Scotland, is Glasgow's second university by age, founded in 1796, and receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university...

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Professor Thompson is one of the main theorists of Labour Process Theory. He is also a contributing editor of Renewal

Renewal (journal)

Renewal is a British left-wing political magazine, published in London, England, by Lawrence and Wishart.Renewal was founded in 1993 as the journal of the Labour Coordinating Committee in the wake of the Labour Party's fourth successive election defeat...

, a journal committed to exploring radical social democratic policies in the British Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

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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

Critical management studies is a loose but extensive grouping of politically left wing and theoretically informed critiques of management, business and organisation, grounded originally in a critical theory perspective...

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