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The increasing emphasis on work groups in organizations has led researchers to explore the nature and functions of a key variable to group productivity - collective efficacy. Given the importance of work groups in today’s organizations, research on the collective efficacy formation mechanism and the boundary conditions of collective efficacy formation and operation seems warranted. The author attempts to provide a conceptual framework regarding: (a) the determinants of collective efficacy, (b) the mediating role of interpersonal group trust in relationships between collective efficacy and its antecedents, (c) the moderating role of collectivism/individualism in collective efficacy formation, (d) the relationship between collective efficacy and group productivity, and (e) the moderating role of task interdependence in the relationship between collective efficacy and group productivity. Theoretical and practical implications of the work are then discussed.