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Victor Harold Vroom (August 9, 1932,[1] Montreal, Canada) is a business school

professor at the Yale School of Management. He holds a PhD from University of
Michigan.

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 wellknown 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 GE and American Express.[citation needed]

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. Currently, Victor lives in Guilford, Connecticut, with his second wife,
Julia Francis, and their two sons, Tristan and Trevor