Organizational Commitment of Library Personnel in Selected Academic Libraries in Ogun State, Nigeria

Abstract

Organisational commitment is the degree to which a worker recognises the organisation as meeting his or her expectation thereby influencing his or her desires to remain in the organisation. This paper investigated the organisational commitment of library personnel in selected academic libraries in Ogun State, Nigeria. The descriptive research design was adopted for this study. Multistage sampling technique which involved both stratified and purposive sampling techniques was used to select the tertiary institutions for the study while total enumeration technique was used to determine the population of the study. The population of the study comprised 222 library personnel from six tertiary institutions namely: Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Abeokuta, Federal College of Education, Osiele, Abeokuta and Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu. A questionnaire was used as data collection instrument. Findings showed that the working environment of library personnel in the study area was good and their promotion was regular. More so, the factors that influence organisational commitment such as cordial relationship in the work place, annual leave and promotion as and when due and good condition of service were high.  Conducive environments, career advancement, recognition among the colleague, future prospect were the most factors that promote organisational commitment among library personnel. The challenges facing library personnel in selected academic libraries included inability to employ experts in the area of need, train and retrain personnel on what are expected of them in their job tasks and lack of adequate level of autonomy in discharging duties. The conclusion was drawn based on the findings of the study while recommendations were also proffered.