Background
Vroom, Victor Harold was born on August 9, 1932 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Harold Heard and Avice May (Brown) Vroom.
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Why do people choose the careers they do? What factors cause people to be satisfied with their work? No single work did more to make concepts like motive, goal incentive, and attitude part of the workplace vocabulary. This landmark work, originally published in 1964, integrates the work of hundreds of researchers in individual workplace behavior to explain choice of work, job satisfaction, and job performance. Includes an extensive new introduction that highlights and updates his model for current organization behavior educators and students, as well as professionals who must extract the highest levels of productivity from today's downsized workforces.
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psychologist university professor
Vroom, Victor Harold was born on August 9, 1932 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Harold Heard and Avice May (Brown) Vroom.
Bachelor of Science, McGill University, Montreal, 1953. Master of Science, McGill University, Montreal, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1958.
Master of Arts (honorary), Yale, 1972.
Vroom"s primary research was on the expectancy theory of motivation, which attempts to explain why individuals choose to follow certain courses of action in organizations, particularly in decision-making and leadership. His most well-known books are Work and Motivation, Leadership and Decision Making and The New Leadership. Vroom has also been a consultant to a number of corporations such as General Electric and American Express.
Victor Vroom was appointed Chairman of the Department of Administrative Sciences and associate Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale in 1972.
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Fellow American Psychological Association (James McKeen Cattell award 1970), Australian Psychological Society Academy Management.
Married Ann Louise Workman, June 12, 1956 (divorced January 1989). Children: Derek Alan, Jeffrey James. Married Julia Ann Francis, December 27, 1989.
Children: Tristan Alexander, Trevor Huston.