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Self-Efficacy’s Role In Success Of Quality Training Programmes

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Organizational success, Programme implementation, Quality performance, Quality training, Self-efficacy, Teamwork

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Industrial and Commercial Training

Volume

51

Issue

1

First Page

24

Last Page

39

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore why some firms succeed while others flounder or fail to implement quality improvement programmes. It synthesises self-efficacy literature to propose a model of self-efficacy’s role in affecting implementation success of quality improvement programmes in organisations. Design/methodology/approach: A review of scholarly articles on the topics of self-efficacy and quality initiatives brings to light self-efficacy’s role in successful quality programme implementation. When considered in the context of organisation barriers, it can lead to organisational success. Findings: It is determined that quality training programmes play an important role in affecting existing efficacies and leading to “quality self-efficacy” in employees. The proposed model and related propositions suggest that right approaches of implementing quality training among certain types of employees and/or organisations can promote teamwork to achieve performance success. Research limitations/implications: Moving forward, the proposed model should be empirically tested to improve our understanding of quality self-efficacy construct and its role in aiding organisational success. Furthermore, it would offer guidelines for the implementation of quality programmes in the most optimal way. Practical implications: In applying theories on self-efficacy, motivation, empowerment, and quality training, the authors posit that existing efficacy and quality self-efficacy are crucial for quality implementation efforts to overcome organisational barriers and lead to effective teamwork and performance success. Social implications: The authors postulate that deciding factors for organisational success originate from employees themselves as existing efficacies. Even though employees can foster quality self-efficacy through the implementation of quality improvement initiatives, existing self-efficacy, and organisation barriers will be moderating forces on eventual effectiveness of quality self-efficacy, teamwork, and organisational performance. Originality/value: The model and related propositions, linking self- and collective efficacies to quality training, teamwork, and quality performance, offered in this paper will prove useful for organisational decision-makers in selecting quality programmes for implementation in organisation to achieve performance success.

Department

Department of Management

Original Publication Date

1-7-2019

DOI of published version

10.1108/ICT-06-2018-0058

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

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