Effect of Employee Empowerment on Affective Organizational Commitment; Mediating Role of Work Engagement

Abstract

Employees are the foundation of hospitality industry and success of this industry depends upon the engaged workers. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and validate the impact of Employee Empowerment on Affective Organizational Commitment with the mediation of Work Engagement in the hospitality industry of Lahore. Data were collected through questionnaire using convenience sampling from 205 employees. the findings revealed that work employee empowerment has a significant effect of affective commitment and work engagement is significantly mediating. The results suggest that work engagement act as a partial mediator of the effects of employee empowerment on affective organizational commitment. Implication of the result are discussed, and direction of future research are offered. This study shows that organization can influence affective commitment of employees by empowering them, giving them challenges and having correct alignment with the goal through work engagement.