Self Efficacy Paper

1.2.9 - Motivation and Efficacy: Albert Bandura, a psychologist defines self – efficacy as “One’s belief in one's ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a specific task”.

An individual’s belief plays a major role in how a task, goal or challenge is approached. Individuals with high levels of self-efficacy, believe that they can perform well and their belief in themselves helps them view difficult tasks as a challenge and not as a problem.

Self – efficacy beliefs determine how individuals think, motivate, and behave. Let us look at, how people with low and high self-efficacy behave when faced with challenging tasks.

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1.2.10 - Self –efficacy:

Self- efficacy is also said to affect motivation of individuals. Individuals with high self-efficacy are more likely to make efforts to finish a particular task. Self –efficacy beliefs is said to be an important aspect which predicts human behaviour.

1. Self-efficacy influences the tasks chosen by the employees. An employee with high self-efficacy chooses to set high personal goals and an employee with low self-efficacy chooses to set low personal goals.

2. Self – efficacy influences the effort that individuals exercise on the task at hand. Individuals with high self-efficacy are sure about the tasks that they perform and are confident about the success of the tasks whereas individuals with low self – efficacy exert less effort.

3. Self-efficacy influences the persistence with which people attempt new and difficult tasks. Employees with high self-efficacy are confident of performing a specific task and may persist when challenges arise.

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