International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)

Social Support, Work Motivation and Work Commitment of Library Personnel in Selected Private University Libraries in South-West, Nigeria

Document Type : Articles

Authors

Pius Olatunji Olaojo 1
John Adeboye Oyeboade 2
Ajibola Sunmade Gbotosho 3

1 Ph.D., CLN, JP Research Fellow, Centre for Educational Media Resource Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

2 Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

3 Acquisition Librarian, Osun State University Main Library, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria

Abstract
The study was designed to investigate social support and work motivation as factors affecting work commitment of library personnel in private universities in South-West, Nigeria. Descriptive research design of the correlational type was adopted. Structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Simple frequency count and percentage distribution, mean, standard deviation, ANOVA and correlation matrix table was used for the data analysis using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings of the study revealed that respondents have moderate work commitment in their various libraries. The findings revealed that there is significant positive relationship between: social support and work commitment of the library personnel (r = .111*; p < 0.05), work motivation and work commitment of the library personnel (r = .032*; df = 205; p < 0.05). Hence, the main factors that hinder work commitment of the library personnel include: insensitivity to library staff welfare, inability to acquire state of the art working equipment, poor funding of the library, among others.

Keywords

Social Support
Motivation
work commitment
library personnel
Nigeria
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  • Receive Date 28 June 2017
  • Accept Date 03 December 2022

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