Correlational study of organizational commitment, self-efficacy and psychological barriers to technological change

Abstract

Relationship among organizational commitment, self-efficacy and perceived psychological barriers to technological change was studied in a sample of 167 male managers selected from Tata Engineering and Locomotive company, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. Organizational Commitment Scale developed by Allen and Meyer (1990), Generalized Perceived Self-efficacy Scale by Schwarzer and Jerusalem (1995), Questionnaire to measure Psychological Barriers to Technological Change by Ghani and Sugumar (1999) were the tools. Results revealed that organizational commitment is positively related with age, length of service in present cadre and self-efficacy and negatively with psychological barriers to technological change. Psychological barriers to technological change were found to be positively related with age, length of service in present cadre and negatively with self-efficacy. Negative correlation coefficients were found between self-efficacy and age and also between self-efficacy and length of service in present cadre. Multiple regression analysis was done to see the relative contribution of different variables.