The Study On The Structure Of Adaptive Performance And Its Relationship With Other Factors

This research discussed the structure of adaptive performance of employees in organizations in China. Based on literature studying, we collected scale items by interview and open-questionnaires, which formed the initial scale. We revised the scale through pretest and finally got the formal scale. After giving out more than 400 questionnaires, we got a seven-factor structure of adaptive performance by exploratory factor analysis and we tested the structure by confirmative factor analysis. We also discussed the relationship between achievement goal orientation, self-efficacy and adaptive performance. At last, the influence of demographics was tested on adaptive performance. The results are as follows:1. Adaptive performance of employees in organizations in China is made up of seven factors:solving problems creatively, adapting to diverse culture, dealing with work pressure, on-job learning continuously, communication and improvement, adapting to complex interrelationship and dealing with emergency.2. Learning goal orientation and prove goal orientation have a positive influence on adaptive performance.3. Self-efficacy has mediate effect on Learning goal orientation and adaptive performance. Self-efficacy has mediate effect on prove goal orientation and adaptive performance4. There are significant differences on adaptive performance among gender, education, working years, company types, position rank and working types.