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ISSN: 2360-7858 |
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Vol. 8(9), pp. 280–288. October, 2020. ISSN: 2360-7858 DOI: 10.14662/IJALIS2020.260
Research paper
Influence of Job Motivation on Librarian’s Commitment in University Libraries in Southern Nigeria
1Ezeudu, Benedicta Ogochuku, 2Unegbu, V.E., 3Babalola, Y.T. and 4Madukoma, E.
1Department of Information Resources Management, Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria E-mail: benebak@yahoo.com 2Department of Information Resources Management, Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria. E-mail: Unegbuv@babcock.edu.ng 3Department of Information Resources Management, Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria. E-mail: babalolay@babcock.edu.ng 4Department of Information Resources Management, Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria. E-mail: madukomae@babcock.edu.ng
Accepted 19 October 2020
This study examined the Job Motivation on Librarians Commitment in universities in southern Nigeria. This study was conducted among professional librarians working in 39 universities namely: Eighteen (18) from federal universities and Twenty (21) from state universities in South-East, South-West and South-South private university libraries. The survey research was adopted for the study. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from all the five hundred and fifty-six (556) professional librarians in thirty-nine University Libraries in Southern Nigeria. Total enumeration method was used to include all academic librarians in the universities in Southern Nigeria. Five hundred and twenty-four (524) were completed and retrieved for data analysis. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics; The findings showed that the influence of librarian’s job motivation in university libraries in Southern Nigeria was high. And that affective commitment made the largest contribution for the job commitment followed by normative and continuance commitment. The study recommends that the library managements should look into self-esteem motivation of librarians since it rated lowest among other indicators of job motivation. Policies that enhances librarians self -esteem such as Recognition of employees achievements, prestige and awards should be put in place to boost librarians job commitment
Key word: Job Motivation, Librarians Commitment, University library
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