Identifying and Evaluation of Antecedents and Consequences of Managers' Self-Efficacy with Role of Consistent Leadership in Knowledge Enterprise Organizations

Self-efficacy is one of the most important mechanisms of self-influence and one of the important constructs of positive organizational behavior has been less studied despite the antiquity and scope of research in psychology, in the field of organizational issues, and especially for managers. The purpose of this combined research in the first stage, which was conducted with a qualitative research strategy, is to identify the components and dimensions of self-efficacy of managers of knowledge enterprise organizations and the factors affecting it, as well as organizational consequences and its impact on collective self-efficacy. This was done using three coding steps and Atlas Qualitative Analysis software. Also, an important and effective category on the self-efficacy of individuals in the organization was identified and examined as consistent leadership, which creates optimism and empathy and compassion with individuals. In the second stage, which is quantitative, the relationships of the elements of the heuristic model were tested in the form of two measurement models and structural equations using SPSS and AMOS software. For this purpose, a researcher-made questionnaire was distributed and collected among 204 managers of knowledge-based companies in Isfahan Scientific Research Town as a sample. The results of the quantitative test confirmed all the hypotheses and the sufficient validity of the research’s conceptual model.