Can creativity, responsibility and skills guarantee better job performance of pharmacists? a cross‒sectional study from Pakistan

Job performance is considered as a multi dimensional concept describing the extent to which employees fulfill their responsibilities by using their creativity productivity and problem solving skills The present study was designed to assess the job performance of pharmacists working in different fields in twin cities of Pakistan A descriptive cross sectional study design was to assess the job performance of pharmacists working in different fields in twin cities i e Islamabad Federal Capital and Rawalpindi Twin City of Pakistan Sample size was calculated to be pharmacists to achieve confidence level with margin of error The performance of these selected respondents was evaluated by using Performance Evaluation Questionnaire PEQ requested to be filled by their respective reporting managers After data collection data was cleaned coded and analyzed using SPSS version Results showed that creativity was found above average among pharmacists with mean score plusmn job responsibility plusmn and management skills plusmn were also above average The overall job performance plusmn of pharmacists was also found adequate The results of the present study concluded that of pharmacists was above average Although the pharmacists were creative responsible and possessed managerial skills but still these expertise rsquo s needs to be further enhanced through extensive training and continuous professional development programs