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BearingPoint Professor of Management & Professor of Psychology

Professor Vroom is an authority on the psychological analysis of behavior in organizations, particularly on leadership and decision making. His 1964 book, Work and Motivation, is regarded as landmark in that field, and his books dealing with leadership, Leadership and Decision Making and The New Leadership, are widely cited as breakthroughs in the study of organizational behavior. A native of Canada, Professor Vroom has consulted to over 50 major corporations, including Bell Labs, GTE, American Express, and General Electric.

Achievements and Honors
Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, Society of Industrial and Organizational
Psychology, 1998
Fellow, American Psychological Association
Fellow, American Psychological Society
Fellow, The Academy of Management
Excellence in Teaching Award from the Yale SOM Alumni Association, 1994
President, Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 1980-1981
James McKeen Cattell Award, American Psychological Association, 1970
Fulbright Lecturer in United Kingdom, 1967-1968
McKinsey Foundation Research Design Competition Winner, 1967
Ford Foundation Faculty Fellowship, 1961-1962
Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Competition Winner, 1958-1959

Editorships
Editorial Board:
Journal of Conflict Resolution

Books
Work and Motivation, Revised Edition, Jossey-Bass Classics, 1995

Management and Motivation (with E. Deci), Penguin Books, Second Edition, 1992

The New Leadership: Managing Participation in Organizations(with A. Jago), Prentice Hall, 1988; German Edition, 1991; Spanish Edition, 1991; Korean Edition, 1994

Some Personality Determinants of the Effects of Participation, Garland Publishing Company, Reprinted 1987

Leadership and Decision Making (with P. Yetton), University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973

Recent Book Chapters
Decision Making: the Vroom/Yetton/Jago Models, in The Encyclopedia of Leadership, forthcoming

Situational Factors in Leadership, in Chowdry S, ed., Organizations 21C:, Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2003

Leadership Style: Managing the Decision Making Process, in Rimar S., ed., The Yale Management Guide for Physicians, Wiley, 2001

Selected Articles
"Educating Managers in Decision Making and Leadership," Management Decision, forthcoming

"The Person Versus the Situation in Leadership," Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 13, 301-323, 2002

"Leadership and the Decision Making Process," Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 28, 82-94, 2000

Education
PhD University of Michigan, 1958
MPs.Sc. McGill University, 1955
B.Sc. McGill University, 1953