Examining the Effect of Self Efficacy on Employees’ Performance through Cultural Intelligence

Abstract

This study has examined the role of cultural intelligence as a mediating factor between the relationship of self-efficacy with employee performance. Participants were 380 lecturers from different public colleges of Punjab selected through convenient sampling technique. Generalized Self Efficacy Scale (Schwarzer & Jerusalem, 1995), Employee Performance (Wiedower, 2001) and Four Factor Cultural Intelligence Scale (Ang, Van Dyne, & Koh, 2006) along with a demographic variables information sheet were administered to the participants. Utilizing statistical analyses of correlation, regression analysis and sobel test, findings of correlation matrix showed the significant relationships among self-efficacy, employee performance, and cultural intelligence. Regression analyses depicted the significant positive effects of self-efficacy on employee performance and cultural intelligence. Results of Sobel test revealed that cultural intelligence was found a significant mediating predictor between the relationship of self-efficacy and employee performance. These findings can be employed to understand better the determinants of employee performance in any organizational context, and the role of cultural intelligence can be utilized in increasing the rate of employee performance while making several policies of work environment.