EFFECT OF CREATIVITY AND CONFIDENCE ON JOB PERFORMANCE – AN EMPIRICAL STUDY AMONG IT PROFESSIONALS
Abstract
Leadership performance is an important component for IT Professionals in terms of viability in the long run. As a complex phenomenon, leadership performance is affected by many other variables, including the perception of managers of their own behavior as leaders. This study examines the perceived impact of confidence and creativity of IT professionals on their job performance, for which 117 individuals participating from IT sectors of the studied area were surveyed. The results indicate that confidence has a positive, strong and significant relationship with the ability of the managers to articulate a vision and hence it influenced their job performance, but not the creativity whose relationship, although positive and significant, is not considered strong. In addition, a strong, positive and significant relationship was found between the ability to articulate a vision and contribute to their job performance.
Keyword : Confidence, Creativity, Job Performance, IT Professionals, Performance feedback, Leadership Performance
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