self-efficacy

Examples of self-efficacy in the following topics:

• Expectancy Theory

  • First is self-efficacy, or the belief that one can accomplish the goal.

• Goal-Setting Theory

  • Self-efficacy – one's belief that he is able to achieve the goals
  • Not only does participation increase commitment in attaining the goals that are set, participation influences self-efficacy as well.

• Alternative Philosophies

  • First, job rotation boosts morale and self-efficacy.

• Leadership

• Employee Ownership

  • Bandura's social cognitive theory functions on the premise of self-efficacy.

• Knowledge Management

  • Here are a few of the criteria for measuring the efficacy of a knowledge management strategy:
  • More recently, the development of social computing tools (such as bookmarks, blogs, and wikis) have allowed more unstructured, self-governing or ecosystem approaches to the transfer, capture and creation of knowledge, including the development of new forms of communities, networks.

• Researching Consumer Markets

  • Advertising research is a specialized form of marketing research conducted to improve the efficacy of advertising.

• Cross-Functional and Self-Managed Teams

  • A cross-functional team is fully or partially self-managed group of employees with different functional expertises but with a common goal.
  • The Morning Star Company, a privately held food processing and agribusiness company, is a fully self-managed company, having no formal hierarchy, and allowing colleagues within the company to commit to their own activities, organize their own work, and coordinate their own working relationships with other colleagues.
  • For example, every one of the Whole Foods Market stores, the largest natural-foods grocer in the United States developing a focused strategy, is an autonomous profit center composed of an average of 10 self-managed teams, while team leaders in each store and each region are also a team.
  • Some business leaders have begun to structure their companies as either partially or fully self-managed.
  • A fully self-managed company is one that imposes no formal hierarchical structure upon employees (in some cases, having no hierarchy whatsoever).

• Social and Legal Considerations

  • In 1976, the Federal Trade Commission ruled that these claims were misleading, and that Listerine had "no efficacy" at either preventing or alleviating the symptoms of sore throats and colds.

• Reducing Waste and Environmental Impacts

  • In the United Kingdom, several pilot schemes, such as The Catalyst Project and the Dee Waste Minimisation Project, have shown the efficacy of such policies.