Empowered Leadership and Self- Efficacy: Shaping IT Workforce Performance Towards Viksit Bharat 2047

Objectives: The research is intended to identify the role of self-efficacy in job performance and engagement in work among IT professionals. It aims to find out the role played by the belief by the employees in their potential in enhancing better results in the workplace in a dynamic and competitive industry.
Methods: A quantitative research design was taken and primary data were gathered by using a structured questionnaire to the IT professionals. The analysis of data and testing of the hypotheses were performed with the help of statistical methods (descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, regression analysis, etc.).
Findings: The findings demonstrate that self efficacy affects job performance and work engagement significantly in a positive way. High self-efficacy employees are more productive, committed and the extent of their engagement in the work process is better. The results affirm the fact that self-efficacy is a predictive measure of effectiveness at the workplace.
Novelty: This research is one of the contributions to the current literature given that it combines self-efficacy with job performance, and work engagement in the IT sector. It has given empirical data about the importance of psychological resources in terms of work performance and engagement in a fast changing working environment.

Self-efficacy; job performance; work engagement; IT professionals; organizational behavior; employee productivity.

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