Organisational Commitment of Library and Information Science Educators in Universities in South-West, Nigeria
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Organisational Commitment, Job Performance, LIS Educators, UniversitiesAbstract
The study investigated the organisational commitment of Library and Information Science (LIS) educators in universities in South-West, Nigeria using the model of organisational commitment. This became eminent at the wake of low job performance recorded by LIS educators in teaching and research. Three objectives guided the study. The study adopted a survey research design and questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. The population of the study comprised 480 Library and Information Science (LIS) Educators in six federal, nine state and thirty private universities in South-West, Nigeria. Total enumeration technique was used to obtain the sample size of 480 LIS educators. Four hundred and eighty copies of the questionnaire were administered and 334 copies were filled and found usable for the study representing 69.5% response rate. The study showed the affective and normative levels of organisational commitment of LIS educators to be high while continuance commitment was low. The study recommended that the staff development units of universities should increase the quota for local and international training funds so that there will be increased knowledge acquisition and knowledge sharing practices among budding LIS educators in universities in South-West, Nigeria.
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