Topic > Leadership Model Vroom Jago - 819

Decision making is a task that requires maximum balance on the part of the leader. Unilateral decisions when team input is needed or resources going into many group decision-making processes when the decision itself is not as crucial can turn out to be a big outcome that influences part of the outcomes of a leadership experience. Leadership requires a lot of adaptability where the leadership style to be followed, a complete led or team led leader, has to be chosen based on the type of decision to be made and the situation in which the decision has to be made. Leadership is the process by which a person influences others to work toward a goal. (1) Below are many leadership models currently in practice that help a leader make decisions. • Fiedler contingency model. • Hersey and Blanchard situational model. • House Path-Goal Model.• Vroom-Jago Leadership Model.The Vroom Jago Leadership Model interests us right now. Vroom Jago's leadership model uses decision trees and tradeoffs to arrive at a series of branching decisions. Vroom Jago's leadership model relates leadership behavior and participation in decision making. The model has the leader ask him a series of questions to which the answer would be yes or no. After a series of questions about the decision to be made and the situation in question, the leader comes to the conclusion whether to make a decision alone or involve the group and if it involves the group, to what extent. Vroom Jago's leadership model provides a predefined set of decision-making styles that the leader may wish to adapt. • Leadership styles • Autocratic I (A1). In this leadership style the leader makes a decision completely at his own discretion without the knowledge or consent of the team members. This style of decision making is possible only in cases where there is not much at stake in the outcome of this decision, when the employees' decision is not exactly crucial to the outcome of the project, or when a leader thinks that the decision can be arrives on the basis of the information available and believes that no further information is needed from team members to make a correct and calculated decision. • Autocratic II (A2). The leader makes a decision based on the information requested from team members. This differs from the type of leadership mentioned above in the only respect that the leader does not have all the information necessary to arrive at a decision and requires the same from the team members.