Leadership is the process whereby one person influences others to work towards a goal.(1)
The following are lot of leadership models that are currently in practice that assist a leader take decisions.
• Fiedler’s Contingency model.
• Hersey and Blanchard Situational model.
• House’s Path-Goal Model.
• Vroom-Jago Leadership Model.
Vroom Jago leadership model is of Interest to us right now. Vroom Jago leadership model uses decision trees and tradeoffs for a arriving at a set of branched decisions. The Vroom Jago leadership model relates leadership behavior and participation to decision making. The model makes the leader pose him/her a series of questions to which yes or no would be the answer. After a series of questions about the decision to be taken and the situation at hand, the leader arrives at a conclusion where as to take a decision all by himself/herself or to involve the group and if it involves the group, to what extent.
The Vroom Jago leadership model has a pre defined set of decision styles the leader can wish to adapt.
• Leadership Styles
• Autocratic I (A1). The leader takes a decision completely at his discretion without the knowledge or consent of the team members in this style of leadership. This style of decision making is possible only in cases where there is not a lot at stake with the out come of this decision, when the employees’ decision is not exactly crucial for the outcome
References: 1. Yulk and VanFleet (1992) 2. (figure)http://www.decision-making-confidence.com/vroom-jago-decision-model.html