General and Specific Self-Efficacy in the Context of a Training Intervention to Enhance Performance Expectancy

Autor/inn/en	Schwoerer, Catherine E.; May, Douglas R.; Hollensbe, Elaine C.; Mencl, Jennifer
Titel	General and Specific Self-Efficacy in the Context of a Training Intervention to Enhance Performance Expectancy
Quelle	In: Human Resource Development Quarterly, 16 (2005) 1, S.111-129 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1044-8004
DOI	10.1002/hrdq.1126
Schlagwörter	Individual Characteristics; Self Efficacy; Pretests Posttests; Performance; Employee Attitudes; Intervention; Transfer of Training; Labor Force Development; Human Resources; Evaluation Methods; Job Training + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Achievement; Leistung; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Arbeitskräftebestand; Humankapital; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang
Abstract	A pretest-posttest field study investigated self-efficacy, both general and specific, in an intensive training experience to prepare new recruits for their work assignments. Specific issues addressed include (1) the effects of the training experience on general self-efficacy (GSE), work-specific selfefficacy (SSE), and performance expectancy; (2) the effects of pretraining attitudes and beliefs on posttraining GSE and work SSE; and relations between posttraining self-efficacy beliefs and posttraining performance expectancy. Training increased GSE, SSE, and performance expectancy. Unlike GSE, work SSE was influenced by pretraining motivation, training self-efficacy, and performance expectancy. The implications of the findings for HRD research and practice are discussed from the perspectives of understanding individual characteristics of trainees, choosing methods to enhance self-efficacy, and the appropriateness of measuring general and specific self-efficacy before training (to guide planning) and after training (as an evaluation dimension) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10