Design/methodology/approach – A survey of 211 customer-contact employees at 30 upscale
hotels in Lithuania was conducted to study organisational empowerment, as a bundle of HRM
activities, and its association with employee attitudes and behaviour.
Findings – A distinction was made between organisational empowerment, as a bundle of HRM
activities, and psychological empowerment, as an employee work-related attitude, and their role in the
HRM-performance linkage was defined. Organisational empowerment was positively related to
psychological empowerment, job satisfaction, and affective commitment. Psychological empowerment
and affective commitment were found to mediate the impact of organisational empowerment on
customer-oriented behaviour.
Research limitations/implications – Data were collected in a single industry in Lithuania;
therefore, further research in other services needs to be conducted to make generalisations on the
applicability of the proposed empowerment-performance model to other industries.
Practical implications – In the upscale hotel context, where employee turnover reduction and
service quality improvement are critical, organisational empowerment can enhance employee job
satisfaction, commitment, psychological empowerment and customer-oriented behaviour.
Originality/value – The paper provides empirical evidence of the positive effect of employee
perceived HRM practices (organisational empowerment) on HR-related performance outcomes -
employee attitudes (psychological empowerment, job satisfaction, affective commitment) and
customer-oriented behaviour. Besides the role of empowerment in the HRM-performance linkage is
defined and empirically tested.
Keywords HRM practices, Performance outcomes, Empowerment, Employees attitudes,
Customer-oriented behaviour, Upscale hotels, Lithuania, Hotels
Paper type Research paper
Design/methodology/approach – A survey of 211 customer-contact employees at 30 upscale
hotels in Lithuania was conducted to study organisational empowerment, as a bundle of HRM
activities, and its association with employee attitudes and behaviour.
Findings – A distinction was made between organisational empowerment, as a bundle of HRM
activities, and psychological empowerment, as an employee work-related attitude, and their role in the
HRM-performance linkage was defined. Organisational empowerment was positively related to
psychological empowerment, job satisfaction, and affective commitment. Psychological empowerment
and affective commitment were found to mediate the impact of organisational empowerment on
customer-oriented behaviour.
Research limitations/implications – Data were collected in a single industry in Lithuania;
therefore, further research in other services needs to be conducted to make generalisations on the
applicability of the proposed empowerment-performance model to other industries.
Practical implications – In the upscale hotel context, where employee turnover reduction and
service quality improvement are critical, organisational empowerment can enhance employee job
satisfaction, commitment, psychological empowerment and customer-oriented behaviour.
Originality/value – The paper provides empirical evidence of the positive effect of employee
perceived HRM practices (organisational empowerment) on HR-related performance outcomes -
employee attitudes (psychological empowerment, job satisfaction, affective commitment) and
customer-oriented behaviour. Besides the role of empowerment in the HRM-performance linkage is
defined and empirically tested.
Keywords HRM practices, Performance outcomes, Empowerment, Employees attitudes,
Customer-oriented behaviour, Upscale hotels, Lithuania, Hotels
Paper type Research paper
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