In the recent HRM practitioners,people give more and more attention to the mentality and its adaptation.However,there was no theoretical research on the model of mentality adaptation.This research develops a model of mentality and its adaptation based on a perspective of cognition and conation.Having adopted a new perspective for exploring the path of mentality change and mentality adaptation,this study offers a theoretical model for researching on employees' mentality adaptation.The future studies will discuss the strengths and limitations of this model.