Bangalore: Kenexa, a provider of business solutions for human resources has announced the results of employee confidence study, which states that the employee confidence increased in the second quarter of 2009. India's employee confidence grew by 8.1 percent since March and the employee confidence index score for India was 99.6. India recorded a higher growth of 8.1 percent as compared to UK (4.6 percent up) and U.S. (rise of 5.3 percent). The employee confidence index score for UK was 99.0 and U.S. was 98.9. In June 2009, the global employee index score was 98.9. Also, Brazil (107.2), China (102.3), France (101.4) and Russia (100.9) had the highest levels of employee confidence, while Italy (97.8), Spain (96.0) and Japan (93.8) had the lowest levels. Employee confidence has been found to relate to multiple economic and business performance outcomes at the individual, organizational, industry and country levels as well as being predictive of consumer confidence. A high level of employee confidence is achieved when employees perceive their organization as being effectively managed, competitively positioned and believe that they have a promising future with their organization, job security, and skills that are attractive to other employers. Except Japan, the second quarter 2009 employee confidence index scores also indicate that countries are becoming more positive.