Human resources are a vital component of an association. The significance of human resource practices is perceived by almost every business nowadays. There is no denying of fact that human resource practices can play role in the development of employee performance. Objective The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of employee development, training, job rotation, empowerment and mentoring on employee performance in the hotel industry of Punjab, Pakistan. Methodology Population

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... or the study was the management of the hotel industry of Punjab, Pakistan. The sample was taken from 300 hotel managers from Lahore, Multan, and Bahawalpur. A descriptive and cross-sectional method was used for this study. Pilot testing was performed with six managers from different hotels to test the validity of items. The validity of construct items was evaluated against confirmatory factor analysis and reliability was assessed by Cronbach's α. Skewness and kurtosis tests come before running regression which requires the normalcy of data. SPSS 20 was used to run regression analysis. Results All the items have a factor loading of 0.4 to 1 which were considered for analysis. The value of Cronbach's α for all the items is more than 0.7. Skewness value falls within the range of -.532 to -1.543 whereas kurtosis value falls within the range of .116 to 1.704, which indicated that normalcy was not issue in data. Outcomes demonstrated that employee development, training, Job rotation, empowerment and mentoring have t value of 3.137, 4.467, 5.012, 2.104 and 2.361 respectively. On the other hand, the p-value of all predicting factors was less than the value of 0.05. Conclusion All five hypotheses were supported by the results of current research. In short, worker performance is incredibly boosted by employee development, training, job rotation, empowerment and mentoring in the hotel sector of Punjab, Pakistan. More specifically, self-development, self-learning, and right training for employees are linked with the performance of individuals at different levels and organizational goals.