Self-Efficacy In The Workplace

Introduction
1. The skills and the capabilities to perform a certain task more effectively and efficiently is known as Self-efficacy (Encarta dictionary). The concept of self-efficacy was published by Albert Bandura in his 1977 article. According to him, self-efficacy develops over time and experience, thus, from infancy and continues throughout our life span. Since 1997 to now. There has been a lot of studies been than around self-efficacy in many fields that relate employee quality of work life. These may include salary, job satisfaction, promotions, and other incentives to work performance (Pajares, 1997 .The concept of Self-efficacy has become an interesting area of

Quality of work life means the sum total of values, both material and non-material, attained by a worker throughout his career life. Quality of work life includes aspects of work-related life such as salaries, work environment, work hours, incentives, benefits, career advancement, human factors, which is in no doubt relevant to worker satisfaction and

However, many employees resist work because they do not believe they have the skills and the capabilities to perform their duties successfully. This study will therefore seek to understand how people’s self-efficacy affects how they approach goals, tasks, challenges and responsibilities.
There will be a direct attempt to find out the relationship that may exist between personal factors and quality of work life. Cross-cultural studies of quality of work life, suggest that cultural values can contribute to the explanations of the various job fulfillment, organizational involvement and quality of work life, both within and between cultures (Moorman and Blakely 1995). In view of this it is important to understand this concept in our country (Ghana) since the cultural values in Ghana are different from that of the countries that most of the studies were conducted.
1.2 significance of the