After installing new technology, the Crying Baby Diaper Company found that many of its employees had low self-efficacy beliefs about using the new technology.If they want to strengthen employees' self-efficacy beliefs for using the new technology, which of the following is LEAST likely to influence employees' self-efficacy beliefs?
A)Performance mastery
B)Observation
C)Social recognition
D)Verbal persuasion
E)Physiological state

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Social recognition, while beneficial for motivation and morale, is the least direct method for influencing self-efficacy beliefs related to specific tasks such as using new technology. Self-efficacy is more directly influenced by personal experience (performance mastery), observing others (observation), being persuaded that one can succeed (verbal persuasion), and one's physiological state, as these factors more directly relate to an individual's belief in their capability to perform a task.

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