Investigating the Effect of Talent Management on Psychological Empowerment of Employee of Hospitality Industry

In the accelerating and competitive industry of hospitality, what has guaranteed the excellence of hotels, relative to each other, is having a great wealth of capable and talented human resources. The main purpose of this study is to investigate a relationship between talent management and psychological empowerment of hotel employees in Ramsar. The population of the study is the staff of a hotel that was selected by Cochran's formula for unlimited population, which contains 384 people as samples. And according to a  series of convenience sampling Spreitzer's psychological empowerment questionnaires (1995) determined reliability of 0.855 and also Philips & Roper's talent management questionnaire (2009) reliability of 0.860 were distributed among them and were collected after answering. In order to analyze the data, SPSS23 and Lisrel8.54 softwares were used. The results showed that talent management can affect psychological empowerment as the amount of 68%; and also, among the components of talent management, attracting talents, talents compatibility and maintenance, and talents development earn the first, second and the third place, respectively.  Consequently, hotels can profit from talent management program to improve the employees' psychological empowerment.