Psychological empowerment, employee motivation and job performance among employees of Crown Beverages Limited

Abstract

The study aimed at examining the relationship among psychological empowerment, employee motivation and job performance among crown beverages limited employees in Nakawa Division. The study adopted a correlation research design and adopted a simple random sampling technique to draw a sample of 105 respondents. Data was collected from respondents using self-administered questionnaires, entered into a computer package software called statistical package for social science (SPSS) and after analyzed. Results for Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (r) indicated that there was a positive significant relationship between psychological empowerment and job performance, there was a positive significant relationship between psychological empowerment and employee motivation, there was a positive significant relationship between employee motivation and job performance. Thus based on the findings, crown beverages limited administrators should improve employees through adding more cognitively challenging roles to older workers' jobs rather than simplifying their jobs to determine and ease performance of their employees.