Information Technology Self-Efficacy And Personal Knowledge Management In The Current Era Of Over Loaded Information: a Study Of Generation “Z” Students

Abstract

The scope of study is to investigate the “Information Technology Self Efficacy and Personal Knowledge Management in the current era of over loaded information” of generation “Z” research students at Public Universities of Lahore. It was considered that proper attention was given by the public sector universities of Lahore towards providing Information Technology Self Efficacy to research students (M. Phil, Ph. D). The study explores the emerging IT Self Efficacy trends and its impact on Personal Knowledge Management in the era of highly overloaded information. The research was designed as the quantitative, the study used survey by applying descriptive and inferential statistics. A structured questionnaire was designed with the help of analysis related to literature and adapted questionnaire. The reliability test (Cronbach alpha) revealed that data collection instruments were stable enough to postulate the hypothesis on different grounds. The data of research students from the 13 Public sector universities from different disciplines in Lahore was evaluated by using SPSS (Version 27). The study's conclusions revealed that, in the current era of rich information there is a strong positive correlation between IT self-efficacy and personal knowledge management. Artificial intelligence and the adoption of developing technologies were common approaches for the effective application of Personal Knowledge Management fundamentals in the field and in academics to foster innovation at work. There are important theoretical, practical, social, intellectual and managerial implications to this research.