2020 - Relationship between staff empowerment and employee motivation in hotel enterprises*

The objective of this research is to examine the relationship between staff empowerment and employee motivation in hotel businesses. In the first part of the study, the related literature has been analysed in order to create a theoretical background for the research. In the second part, the relationship between staff empowerment and employee motivation was examined through a two-scale questionnaire applied to 383 participants. The collected data were analysed in SPSS 22 program and hypotheses were tested. As a result of the analysis, it is seen that staff empowerment and employee motivation change according to demographic variables and there is a positive and significant relationship between staff empowerment and employee motivation.