Improving Team 
Adaptive Performance Through Team 
Cohesion: An Integrated Team Level Framework

The objective of this research is to investigate the link between team cohesion and team adaptive performance (TAP) directly and via team ambidexterity. This research also examines the moderating effect of team empowerment climate on the link between team cohesion and TAP. Data were collected through a time-lagged design (two waves) from a sample of 62 teams consisting of 296 software developers working in the software development industry in Pakistan. The team-level hypothesised framework was analysed through Hayes’ PROCESS Macro using SPSS. The results revealed that team cohesion positively influences TAP directly, as well as via team ambidexterity. Moreover, the results also reveal that team empowerment climate positively moderates the direct association between team cohesion and TAP. This study implies that the managers of software houses should enable software developers to address challenging and uncertain situations by promoting high-quality relationships among team members and by supporting a perception of an empowered climate within teams. This study makes an important contribution to the nascent literature on TAP by highlighting team cohesion as a predecessor of TAP and by examining employee ambidexterity as a mechanism in this relationship.