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Victor Vroom, a professor at Yale University and a scholar on leadership and decision-making, developed the normative model of decision-making. [1] Drawing upon literature from the areas of leadership, group decision-making, and procedural fairness , Vroom’s model predicts the effectiveness of decision-making procedures. [ 2 ]
The Vroom–Yetton contingency model is a situational leadership theory of industrial and organizational psychology developed by Victor Vroom, in collaboration with Philip Yetton (1973) and later with Arthur Jago (1988). The situational theory argues the best style of leadership is contingent to the situation.
Vroom was born in Montreal, Quebec on August 9, 1932. [1] He held a PhD from University of Michigan and an MS and BS from McGill University.Dr. Vroom initially was interested in music as a child, but later found interest in psychology after taking a career interests test in high school that showed he had the best potential of being either a musician or a psychologist. [2]
Because groups offer both advantages and disadvantages in making decisions, Victor Vroom developed a normative model of decision-making [10] that suggests different decision-making methods should be selected depending on the situation. In this model, Vroom identified five different decision-making processes. [9] Decide
Victor Vroom, in collaboration with Phillip Yetton [61] and later with Arthur Jago, [62] developed a taxonomy for describing leadership situations. They used this in a normative decision model in which leadership styles were connected to situational variables, defining which approach was more suitable to which situation. [63]
Leadership analysis is the art of breaking down a leader into basic psychological components for study and use by academics and practitioners. Good leadership analysis is not reductionist, but rather takes into consideration the overall person in the context of the times, society and culture from which they come.
All three of them drew from their experience to develop a model of effective organizational management, and each of their theories independently shared a focus on human behavior and motivation. [ 3 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] One of the first management consultants , Frederick Taylor , was a 19th-century engineer who applied an approach known as the ...
Democratic leadership, also known as participative leadership, is a type of leadership style in which members of the group take a more participative role in the decision-making process. Researchers have found that this leadership style is usually one of the most effective and leads to higher productivity, better contributions from group members ...