Developing Employee Adaptive Behaviors by Organizational Employability Culture in the Flexible Human Resource Management. Scholars’ Perspective

This study aims to present the role of employability culture in shaping employees’ employability as an adaptive reaction to the effects of flexible human resource management in modern organizations. In addition, we check whether these phenomena are described in scientific studies, regardless of the conditions in which the business environment operates in a given country. Therefore, this article presents a review of the literature on this subject, in Iran. This study is a systematic literature review (SLR) that investigated this subject from 1997 to 2018 published in databases such as Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct, and Iranian databases such as SID, MAGIRAN, CIVILICA, and NOORMAG. The result showed the important role of employability culture in shaping employees’ employability as an adaptive reaction to the effects of flexible human resource management. In addition, it has been shown that there are very few items describing this issue in Iranian publications. This is due to the relatively low competitive conditions of the business environment in which the companies of this country operate. It can be assumed that depending on the advancement of the economy, scholars, to varying degrees, concentrate on the phenomena that are the subject of analysis of their publications. They most clearly respond to current problems and even with a certain delay in relation to their issues. This approach of the employer is very beneficial from the point of view of the effective use of employee competencies in the labor market and avoiding the unfavorable phenomenon of unemployment.