Impact of employee compensation, workplace environment and performance appraisal on employee satisfaction: evidence from hospitality sector in India

In a present complex and competitive scenario, organizations need to retain talented and competent employees who perform excellent work in a congenial environment. Service industries are taking important steps to improve human resource and to attain employee satisfaction. The purpose of the research is to examine the positive and significant impact of employee compensation, workplace environment and performance appraisal on the employee satisfaction in the context of hospitality sector. Four variables were being examined, which includes employee compensation, workplace environment and performance appraisal as an independent variable and employee satisfaction as a dependent variable. For this purpose data was collected from one hundred fifty employees from various hotels in India especially M.P State through questionnaires. Data from target respondents was analyzed in the form of descriptive and reliability analysis. Reliability test was applied to validate questionnaire. Linear and multiple regressions were applied to find the impact of independent variables on dependent variable. Findings of the study revealed that employee compensation have significant impact on employee satisfaction, workplace environment have significant impact on employee satisfaction and performance appraisal also have a positive influence on employee satisfaction and they jointly have significant impact on employee satisfaction. Our study provides a refresh insight of the positive influence of employee compensation and workplace environment. This study has several managerial implications.