CONCEPT
Collective Efficacy
The shared belief among group members that together they can accomplish what they could not accomplish alone — a group-level analog to self-efficacy that predicts team and organizational performance independently of the aggregate of individual efficacies.
Collective efficacy is the shared belief of a group that it can organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments. It is not simply the sum of the individual efficacies of group members; it is an emergent property of the group's history of shared action. A team of highly efficacious individuals can have low collective efficacy if they have not developed trust in their coordinated capability. A team of moderately efficacious individuals can have high collective efficacy if their shared mastery experiences have built confidence in what they can do together. In the AI transition, organizational adaptation depends on collective efficacy more than on individual skill.
In The You On AI Field Guide
Bandura developed collective efficacy as an extension of self-efficacy to group-level action. The empirical work showed that collective efficacy predicts team performance, organizational resilience, and community action independently of the individual competencies involved. A classroom's collective efficacy predicts its academic outcomes; a