TY - JOUR ID - 115516 TI - Preferential Treatment: An Empirical Study in Education Sector of Pakistan JO - International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics JA - IJMAE LA - en SN - AU - Iqbal, Qaisar AD - Management Sciences, SZABIST, Islamabad Campus, Pakistan Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 3 IS - 9 SP - 486 EP - 497 KW - Preferential treatment KW - Job Satisfaction KW - Turnover intentions KW - Education Sector KW - Private Universities DO - N2 - This paper aims to investigate impact of preferential treatment (Nepotism and favoritism) on job satisfaction and turnover intentions of employees. Using convenient sampling technique, data was collected from 200 academic staff of various private universities through self-administered questionnaire. Correlation and Regression analysis has been employed to analyze hypotheses. Results revealed that there is negative impact of nepotism over job satisfaction and turnover intentions of employees. It has been also concluded that with increase in favoritism, there is upward trend in job satisfaction and employee’s turnover intentions. Preferential treatment is generally accepted in Pakistani society so less variance has been observed in job satisfaction and turnover intentions of employees in presence of preferential treatment. UR - https://www.ijmae.com/article_115516.html L1 - https://www.ijmae.com/article_115516_f6657a34f1cd6c1c49ab699bc6256d0b.pdf ER -