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Personal Effectiveness and Self-efficacy as Predictors of Individual Role Efficacy:An Analysis Based on PLS Path Modeling


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Changing and complex work environments are putting individual employees under tremendous pressure to perform well in their roles. Pareek defines role-efficacy associated with an individual in a role as the individual’s potential effectiveness. Ever since the proposition of role theory by Katz and Kahn, there has been a series of research pertaining to concepts like role ambiguity, role-efficacy, and role conflict. Past research has attempted to study their interrelationships in the context of self-efficacy, however, the effect on role-efficacy by the hitherto not explored personal effectiveness types of Pareek lends to a new focus on how role-efficacy can be enhanced. This study of 187 working professionals establishes that individual role-efficacy is dependent not just on personal effectiveness but also critically on self-efficacy of the individual. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) used for Partial Least Squares (PLS) path analysis of the research model indicates that personal effectiveness predicts role-efficacy and this relationship is mediated by self-efficacy.

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Personal Effectiveness, PLS-SEM, Role, Role-Efficacy, Self-Efficacy.
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Authors

Kalpana Srinivasan
Human Resources and Organizational Behavior, Xavier Labor Relations Institute (XLRI), C. H Area (East), Jamshedpur 831001, Jharkhand, India
M. G. Jomon
Human Resources and Organizational Behavior, Xavier Labor Relations Institute (XLRI), C. H Area (East), Jamshedpur 831001, Jharkhand, India

Abstract


Changing and complex work environments are putting individual employees under tremendous pressure to perform well in their roles. Pareek defines role-efficacy associated with an individual in a role as the individual’s potential effectiveness. Ever since the proposition of role theory by Katz and Kahn, there has been a series of research pertaining to concepts like role ambiguity, role-efficacy, and role conflict. Past research has attempted to study their interrelationships in the context of self-efficacy, however, the effect on role-efficacy by the hitherto not explored personal effectiveness types of Pareek lends to a new focus on how role-efficacy can be enhanced. This study of 187 working professionals establishes that individual role-efficacy is dependent not just on personal effectiveness but also critically on self-efficacy of the individual. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) used for Partial Least Squares (PLS) path analysis of the research model indicates that personal effectiveness predicts role-efficacy and this relationship is mediated by self-efficacy.

Keywords


Personal Effectiveness, PLS-SEM, Role, Role-Efficacy, Self-Efficacy.

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