Relationship between Library Employees' Job Motivation and Leadership Styles in Southwest State Universities, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between library employees' job motivation and leadership style in Southwest State Universities in Nigeria. The study adopted survey research of the correlational type. The population for the study consisted all 340 library personnel from state university libraries in Southwestern Nigeria. Total enumeration sampling technique was adopted to cover all the 340 library personnel in the six state universities in Southwestern Nigeria. The instrument used for data collection was an adapted questionnaire. Descriptive and Inferential statistics were used to answer the research questions and test the stated hypotheses with the aid of statistical product and service solution (SPSS) version 20.0 at 0.05 level of significant.  The findings indicated that respondents have a high level of job motivation since the overall weighted mean ????? = 2.80, std dev.= 0.89 and the finding reveals that leadership styles (r = .630; p<0.05) has significant positive relationship with job motivation of library personnel in the state universities in Southwestern Nigeria. Job motivation fosters the attitudes of the employees, thereby making them engage in positive behaviours to work beyond their basic job duties. The study concludes that both job motivation and leadership styles significantly influence the attitude and behaviours of library personnel in Southwest state universities in Nigeria. It therefore recommended that organisations should focus on enhancing job motivation and developing transformational leaders to promote a culture of citizenship behaviour among employees in these institutions.