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The aims of this study is to analyze effects of organizational culture typology on organizational commitment and its mediating effect of empowerment in hotel industry through the structral equation modeling. How the influencing factors of empowerment differentiate between organizational culture typology and organizational commitment. The study adopted a questionnaire method in research of hotel industry in Seoul of Korea. Data were collected from 311 employees for empirical analysis. Technique used in analyzing data was SEM. Amos 24.0 program was applied in the analysis. Variables used in the research are summed up as follows. Influencing variables of organizational commitment, which are an exogenous latent variable, are consisted of developmental culture, rational culture, group culture, and hierarchical culture. Mediating variable is consisted of empowerment. Endogenous latent variable is consisted of organizational commitment. The study itself is consisted of four basic parts. The second chapter addresses the research scales and model for empirical study by reviewing previous related references. In the third chapter, empirical analysis on research models on organizational commitment, focusing on nested and revised models, will be implemented after suggesting methodology and study design for the research. The findings obtained from the analysis is discussed in the fourth chapter, closing with some short concluding remark. In conclusion, a series of causal factors, ie organizational culture typology has significant influence on organizational commitment and its mediating effect of empowerment.