Effects of nepotism on organizational loneliness and employee performance: Comparison of public and private sector

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of nepotism on organizational loneliness and employee performance. Also, to investigate the mediating effect of organizational loneliness on the effect of nepotism on the employee performance. The research is important in terms of examining the relationship between nepotism and organizational loneliness, which has not been tested before. In this context, the data was collected from 407 valid surveys (212 private sector employees and 195 public employees) by using the convenience sampling and snowball sampling methods in Hatay. Private sector and public employees were evaluated as two different samples. In this study, "reliability analysis", "exploratory factor analysis", "Independent sample t-test", "Pearson correlation analysis", "simple linear regression analysis", "hierarchical regression analysis" and "Sobel Tests" were used. The results of the analysis show that nepotism has significant positive effect on organizational loneliness among both samples. Organizational loneliness has significant mediating role on the relationship between nepotism and employee performance among private sector employees. Nepotism does not affect neither organizational loneliness nor employee performance among public employees.