Effects of Favoritism on Turnover Intention via Customer, Coworker and Supervisor Incivilities: An Empirical Study on Bangladesh Hotels

The growing competition in the service industry insists the management be attentive to managing human resources, training and appoint innovative talent to help the organization to be the successful hospitality industry. And the frontline employees are maintaining the essential role to provide the top level of service to the customers in the competitive service atmosphere. But unfortunately, frontline employees faced favoritism and incivilities from customer, coworker, and supervisor because of the organizational unfair environment, inequality treatment. Therefore this research focuses on effects of favoritism on turnover intention of frontline employees in Dhaka hotel industry. The deductive approach (quantitative method) was used to measure the result. The results of this study demonstrate that to do proper use of frontline employees, HRM needs to develop the situation through awareness, punishment and proper training of organizational behavior, as well as government should apply rules and regulation to prevent uncivil behaviors in organizational and control favoritism. In addition, management implications are provided based on the results of the study, and information regarding the limitations of the study as well as implications for future researchers are presented in the thesis. Keywords: Favoritism, customer incivilities, coworker incivilities, supervisor incivilities, turnover intention, human resource management, Dhaka, Bangladesh