Cultivate Self‐Efficacy for Personal and Organizational Effectiveness

Abstract

The present chapter summarizes the relevant principles for developing a resilient sense of efficacy and illustrates their application in the organizational field. Self-efficacy beliefs are developed by four principal sources of information conveyed enactively, vicariously, persuasively, and somatically. When instructive modeling is combined with guided role rehearsal and a guided transfer program, this mode of organizational training usually produces excellent results. Self-management is exercised through a variety of interlinked self-referent processes including self-monitoring, self-efficacy appraisal, personal goal setting, and enlistment of motivating incentives. A substantial body of evidence verifies that perceived self-efficacy operates as a common mechanism through which changes are achieved by diverse modes of influence, across markedly diverse spheres of functioning, with heterogeneous populations, and under differing life conditions. This widespread generalizability is in keeping with Occam's maxim advocating theoretical parsimony.

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