Collective efficacy and teamwork

It is an integral part of the team experience that members’ desire for collective achievement. According to Bandura’s (1997) social cognitive theory, both tasks self-efficacy and collective efficacy could influence performance and achievement related to outcomes. Contrary to task self-efficacy which represent a team member’s confidence in performing one’s own capacity to a certain level, collective beliefs depict the teams shared confidence in its ability to generate collective action and complete a task relative to a specific goal. It sometimes makes me confused to make a distinction between two terms since a team cannot run without individual’s effort while the form that several people work as a team could yield essentially different effort. They emphasize how to evaluate the function and mechanism of an entity through an individual or team level. Collective perceptions of confidence are rooted in individual perceptions of task self-efficacy. Individual perceptions of collective efficacy could represent an emergent effect on climate and the effectiveness on teamwork. Social support behavior and positive feedback act on individual could post positive effect on ego orientation and boost aspirational organic teamwork. However, autocratic behavior and forced collaboration might lead to individual-level despondence and strike. Even though teamwork is a notion of a collectivity, individual agency and characteristics still needs to be taken into consideration when it comes to division of work, responsibility to the group, goals set up for the task. A group consisting of outstanding talents does not guarantee an appreciable outcome, while how various members of the team interact and harmonize with each other could reflect the quality of teamwork. Considering the issue of group level consensus, the perceptions of climate might be a team level predictor of collective efficacy. Feltz and Lirgg (1998) acknowledged the importance of perceptual consensus among teams. Perceptual consensus represents a broader conception of climate dimensions (motivational climate, collective efficacy).