The effect of psychological employees? empowerment on organizational identification: A research in hotel establishment

Personnel empowerment ? aims to raise their efficiency and productivity, and in this way, to contribute to make organizational goals happen. This result of employee empowerment also contributes to the improvement of organizational commitment levels which are defined the employee?s organizational identification. This relationship makes it important to examine the dimensions of the relationship between personnel empowerment and organizational identification.According to the text, the research determining the employees?, who have been working in hotels, perception of psychological empowerment and determining the impact of their perception on the organizational identification levels. For the survey researcher applied questionnaire technique as a method of data collection. The first part of the questionnaire becoming demographic and personel details of the five-star hotel employees, the second part for the questionnaire becoming employees? perception of personnel empowerment consequently last part of the questionnaire becoming determination of employees? levels of organizational identification. The questionnaire given out 736 five-star hotels? employees, in Istanbul, Afyonkarahisar and Kuşadası-Aydın. As the perceptions of participants about psychological empowerment within this research have a significant relation with the age, education, seniority at tourism sector and level of income criterions for the participants. As the employers level of organizational identification has a significant relation among gender, age, department, seniority within the organisation and the level of income. In conclusion, according to the correlation analysis results performed for the definition of the relation between psychological empowerment and organisational identification, a positive relation was defined between two variables (r= 0,525). According to the results of basic and multi linear regression analysis psychological empowerment effects organisational identification at the medium level, and also the meaning (r=0,325) and the impact (r=0,213) dimensions of psychological empowerment are more effective among this effect compared with ther other dimensions of psychological empowerment.