Michael P. Thompson
Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and Strategy
Associate Dean
Deans Office
Office: 790A TNRB
Phone: (801) 422-2794
Email: michael_thompson@byu.edu
Office hours: Monday 3:00 - 4:30 and by appointment
Expertise:
- Behavior
- Communication: organizational and interpersonal
- Leadership and change
- Management: development
- Organizational behavior
- Organizational Development
- Communication and Leadership
- Change Management
- knowledge management
- PHD, Rhetoric and Organizational Communication, RENSSELAER POLYTECH INST, 1985
- MA, COMMUNICATIONS, RENSSELAER POLYTECH INST, 1978
- BA, Classical Greek, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 1974
- Organizational Behavior/Human Resources - Primary
- "Becoming a Master Manager, 4th Edition," January, 2006
- "The Problems and Promises of Total Quality Management," Pressing Problems in Modern Organizations 2000
- "Using the Competing Values Framework in the Classroom," Human Resource Management 1993
- "The Skill of Inquiry and Advocacy: Why Managers Need Both," Management Communication Quarterly 1993
- "Can Personality-Type Instruments Profile Majors in Management Programs?," Journal of Education For Business 1992
- "On Getting the Story Crooked (and Straight)," Journal of Organizational Change Management 1991
Teaching
- Faculty, Center for Executive Development
- Faculty in Executive Education, University of Michigan B School, Manager of Mangers Program
- Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, 1988
- Executive Director, Center for Organizational and Policy Studies, and the Public Service Training Program, State University of New York at Albany, 1980-1988
- Modus Media International
- Marsh and McClennanCompanies
- United States Air Force
- Johnson Controls Group
- AT&T
- Ford Motor Company
- Outstanding Teacher Award , OBHR Track Students , 2004
- Outstanding Teacher Award , Marriott School , 1995
- French
