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Self-efficacy is a significant element in Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory. According to Bandura, a strong self-efficacy belief enhances perceived human capability and well being to perform a particular task. It emerges through gradual acquisition of anticipatory judgmental skills, social and physical skills through experience. On the contrary, organisational efficacy (OE) is a generative capacity within an organisation to cope effectively with the needs, hurdles, problems, and opportunities it encounters within the business environment. Organisational efficacy differs from self-efficacy because it is a group-level, as opposed to an individual level. The study includes 782 respondents from different pharmaceutical companies across different hierarchy level of various functional areas. The collected sample of the study varied widely on personal characteristics of the respondents. The result reveals that majority of the respondents possess high level of self and organisational efficacy. But respondents from age group 20-30 years are found to be having more efficacious beliefs.

Keywords

Self-Efficacy Organisational Efficacy; Beliefs; Pharma Ceutical Iindustry

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