Organisational Applications of Social Cognitive Theory

Albert Bandura

Abstract

Social cognitive theory explains psychosocial functioning in terms of triadic reciprocal causation. In this casual model, behaviour, cognitive and other personal factors and environmental events all operate as interacting determinates that influence each other bidirectionally. This article focuses on how personal factors that contribute importantly to this dynamic interaction can be altered to improve the level of organisational functioning.

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Keywords

SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY; ORGANISATIONAL FUNCTIONING; MASTERY MODELLING; BELIEFS; GOAL SYSTEMS.

Contact Details Albert Bandura Department of Psychology Building 420, Jordan Hall, Stanford University Stanford, California 94305, USA.

This article was an invited address presented to the Australian Graduate School of Management in the University of New South Wales, August 1988, as the Sir Walter Scott Distinguished Visiting Professor.

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