Identifying Employees' Adaptive Performance Antecedents by Meta-Synthesis

Environmental fluctuations and turbulent changes have doubled the importance of employees' empowerment in facing with different situations and uncertain environment. Previous viewpoints about employees' performance have given their place to adaptive performance of employees to face uncertain and dynamic environments. Although there are many studies about effective factors on employee's adaptive performance, the purpose of this research is to present a comprehensive analysis of employees' adaptive performance. In terms of approach, this research is qualitative research and has been used meta-synthesis method. Data were collected from the 34 research on employees' adaptive performance published between 1999 and 2017. As results, while the definitions related to adaptive performance were classified, its antecedents were identified and classified in form of 58 codes, 15 constructive themes and 4 comprehensive themes including individual, job, group and organizational factors. Practically, the results of this study by identifying individual, job, group and organizational factors affecting adaptive performance help managers to perform better in identifying effective actions when faced with uncertain changes and situations.