Zmeny v modeli štýlov vedenia V. H. Vrooma v 21. storočí

Leadership style has an impact on efficiency and achievements of an organisation. In the 1970’s Victor H. Vroom and Philip W. Yetton introduced a normative model of leadership, which was supposed to assist a successful leadership selection. Their model was modified in 1988 and 2000. The paper reviews the changes done in the last adaptation – e.g. a new style named “Delegate”. The authors emphasize the change of perspective on decision making quality, which is not more perceived as a situation factor but the most crucial demand on efficiency. The others are: realisation of the decision, time as an expense, and developmental benefits. The differences between the original and current version of the normative model lay in a number of styles (7 instead of original 8) and a range of observed situation factors. The paper version of the assessment method has a form of two matrices. The first one evaluates situation from a perspective of time expenses minimisation. The second one evaluates developmental benefits of employees. The article points to advantages of an electronic version of Vroom’s model assessment. It introduces a newly included “Problem set” to assess managers’ leadership styles. It also offers some hints how to develop manager skills to choose an appropriate leadership style by using the electronic version of the method.