Assessing the effectiveness of empowerment on service quality: A multi-level study of Chinese tourism firms |
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| Institution: | 1. Renmin University of China, School of Public Administration and Policy, 59 Zhongguancun Street, Beijing, 100872, China;2. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Lally School of Management, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA;1. Milgard School of Business, University of Washington Tacoma, 1900 Commerce St., Tacoma, WA 98402, United States;2. College of Business, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, 1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy, Colorado Springs, CO 80918, United States;3. Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 1309 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47405-1701, United States;4. Foster School of Business, University of Washington, PACCAR Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States;5. School of Business, Wake Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27106, United States |
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| Abstract: | This study tests relationships among three levels of empowerment—organizational, departmental, and individual—and simultaneously their cascading effects on frontline employees' service quality. Drawing on data from 1566 employee-supervisor pairs from 123 departments in 53 Chinese hospitality and tourism enterprises, results reveal a cascading mechanism across three levels of empowerment. Organizational empowerment climate influences employees' psychological empowerment through department psychological empowerment, and department psychological empowerment influences employees' service quality through individual psychological empowerment. Cross-level moderation analysis suggests that only within a high degree of organizational empowerment climate and service behavior-based evaluation does employees' psychological empowerment have positive effects on service quality. In response to the debate on the merits of empowerment programs in organizations, this study supports the usefulness of a cascading, contingency model of empowerment, and demonstrates full delineation of how and when empowerment across three levels influence frontline employees’ service quality. |
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| Keywords: | Empowerment climate Psychological empowerment Service behavior-based evaluation (SBE) Service quality Cross-level Tourism firms |
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