Study of self efficacy in organizational managers working in different environments

Executive or managers at all level play a vital role in charting a course for organizational growth. Consequently, events that impact on their leadership skill have been the subject of great scrutiny among researcher. In this regard, the need to achieve and perform successfully has been shown to affect organizational performance. This study is an effort to compare managers working in two types of environment i.e. Business schools and corporate on the basis of an important Psychological variable i.e. self efficacy. Managers are the community that visibly stands apart in present-day business organization, although heterogeneous and difficult to unequivocal defining. Where as self efficacy is the individuals’ assessment of their capability to organize and execute actions required to achieve successful level of performance The study included 200 managers from business schools and corporate and were administered a self efficacy scale by Jerusalem & Schwarzer burger. The obtained data was processed statistically to give meaning to the findings. This study indicated the significant difference in the self efficacy levels of managers working in business schools and corporate. Where as no relation was found between length of service and self efficacy levels of managers.