Employee empowerment and employee motivation relationship: A research on employees in hotel enterprises

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between employee empowerment and employee motivation in four and five star hotel businesses operating in Istanbul. Empowerment is participating in forming the basis of the work performed by the employee in the place where he / she works, passing his word and taking initiative. Personnel empowerment is basically the ability of employees to determine the conditions for themselves in the environment in which they work, and to feel that they are strong within the organization. Employee motivation is that the employee approaches and feels motivated by the work he does, such as enthusiasm, commitment and ownership. In this study, a research was conducted to see the relationship between staff empowerment and employee motivation. In this study, the relationship between employee empowerment and employee motivation was tried to be examined through a two-scale questionnaire applied to 383 participants. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS 22 program and hypotheses were tested. As a result of the analyzes, personnel empowerment and employee motivation differ according to demographic variables; and there is a positive relationship between staff empowerment and employee motivation. This research report consists of three parts. In the first part, the concept of staff empowerment; In the second part, the concept of employee motivation is discussed and discussed in all aspects. In the third part, the findings of the research built on these two concepts are presented.