INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE IN TURBULENT ENVIRONMENTS: THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING CAPABILITY AND EMPLOYEE FLEXIBILITY

Employee fl exibility is considered a crucial tool for strategic human resource management in tackling environmental turbulence. The major impact that environmental turbulence has on change and fl exibility requirements suggests that employee fl exibility plays an important role in the impact OLC has on individual performance. In this study, we tested three hypotheses that link OLC and individual performance, OLC and employee fl exibility, and employee fl exibility and individual performance. The study applies a structural equation methodology, using partial least squares path modeling, to a sample of 174 academics at a Latin American university (a highly turbulent context). Our results show employee fl exibility fully mediates the relation between OLC and individual performance given the presence of environmental turbulence.