Michael P. Thompson

Michael P. Thompson is Associate Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University (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 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.

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

Thompson is a Latter-day Saint.

Sources

• UMich bio of Thompson
• BYU Devotional address by Thompson

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