James Thompson, Head and Associate Professor
Ph.D., Public Administration (1996)
Syracuse University

Public Administration (M/C 278)
133 CUPPA Hall
phone: 312-355-0304
fax: 312-996-8804
jthomp@uic.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Professor James Thompson is interested in issues of organizational change and reform in the public sector. He and Professor Hal Rainey of the University of Georgia are working on a book relating to the transformation of the IRS, 1998-2007.

He is also interested in and has done research on human resource management issues in the federal government. He and Ph.D. student Rob Seidner are currently working on a report for the IBM Center for the Business of Government on human resource management reforms in the intelligence community. In 2007 He authored a report on, "Designing and Implementing Performance-Oriented Payband Systems for Center for the Business of Government."

In 2007, the Partnership for Public Service published Professor Thompson's report on, "Training Supervisors to be Leaders: The Missing Element in Efforts to Improve Federal Performance."

Recent scholarly work has included an article in Public Administration Review entitled, "The Federal Civil Service: The Demise of an Institution," and, "Federal Labor-Management Relations Under Bush: Enlightened Management or Quest for Control?"