A Canadian-American professor at the Yale School of Management best known for expectancy theory, which explains motivation as a function of an individual's belief that effort leads to performance and that performance leads to valued outcomes. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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BirthplaceMontreal, Quebec, Canada 1 Death PlaceGuilford, Connecticut, U.S. 1 Defining ContributionFormulated expectancy theory of workplace motivation in 1964. 1 Notable WorkWork and Motivation (1964) 1 Connections
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Victor Harold Vroom (August 9, 1932 – July 26, 2023) was a Canadian psychologist and business school professor at the Yale School of Management.
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Victor Harold Vroom (August 9, 1932 - July 26, 2023) was a Canadian psychologist and business school professor at the Yale School of Management.
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His primary research was on the expectancy theory of motivation, which attempts to explain why individuals choose to follow certain courses of action and prefer certain goals or outcomes over others in organizations, particularly in decision-making and leadership.
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