THE INFLUENCE OF LEADERSHIP STYLE, ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT ON EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT IN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN SOUTH-WEST, NIGERIA.

Mayowa-Adebara, Okeoghene

The study investigated the influence of leadership style, organizational justice, and human capital development on employee commitment in university libraries in South-West, Nigeria.The study adopted survey research design. The population of the study consisted of 684 librarians from 43 universities in the six states of South-West, Nigeria. Total enumeration was used to cover all the professional and para-professional library personnel. A validated questionnaire was used for data collection. A return rate of 72% was achieved. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential (linear and multiple regression) statistics. The study revealed that leadership style, organizational justice and human capital development jointly had a significant influence on employee commitment in the university libraries (F(3,488) = 82.89, Adj R²= .333, p<0.05). The result further revealed that unclear organizational policies (42%), lack of supervisor support (41%), denial of promotion and entitlements (39%) and lack of career opportunities (34%) were some of the challenges affecting librarians' commitment in university libraries. The study concluded that the level of employee commitment in university libraries was fairly high. The study therefore recommended that university library management should deploy means to further increase employee commitment by providing good conditions of service such as regular promotion, salary increment and provision of career opportunities.

NIGERIA; LEADERSHIP; ORGANIZATIONAL justice; HUMAN capital; LIBRARY personnel; ACADEMIC libraries

Library Philosophy & Practice, 2018, p1

1522-0222

Academic Journal