ABSTRACT:- As the contemporary financial institutions face a series of turbulences, adaptive leadership is becoming important for enabling banks sense, analyse and reconfigure their capabilities to move from one wave of discontinuities to the other. To discern how adaptive leadership leverages a bank’s capabilities in such situations, this study used systematic review as a qualitative content analysis method to explore whether adaptive leadership influences a bank’s recovery from crisis situations. After a critical synthesis, thematic analysis of the findings indicated adaptive leadership to play significant roles for enhancing team effectiveness and performance by setting goals and determining the quality of team members, shaping team’s operational culture, motivating team’s excellent performance and influencing team creativity. But since adaptive leadership is still ignored by most of the contemporary businesses, it is suggested that given the constant volatile changes that banks experience, banking executives must consider adopting a more adaptive leadership style, as future studies explore the adaptive leadership model that businesses can adopt.

Keywords: Bank Crisis Management; Bank Recovery Strategies; Adaptive Leadership; Impact of Adaptive Leadership; Limitations of Adaptive Leadership