Abstract: When employees possess abilities that can permit them to adapt to rapidly changing work situations and overcome unanticipated obstacles, then they are flexible.
In order to investigate the role played by employee skill flexibility in shaping the relationship between the factors of unstable business environment and firm's performance, this article analyses its mediating effect with the theoretical perspective. This analysis constructs a correlation model between factors of environmental dynamism, firm's performance, and employee skill flexibility. In this construct, we introduce the concepts of the environment, the changes that occur within it, and its effect on productivity. Moreover, the construct also explains the concept of flexibility of human resource and the role it plays on helping managers deal with the changes from the business environment so as...
Key Word: Unstable environment, employee skill flexibility (ESF), productivity, Human Resource flexibility, environmental uncertainty, technology, employment, performance.
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