Job Motivation and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour of Library Personnel in State Universities in Southwest, Nigeria

Abstract

This study established the relationship between Job Motivation and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour of Library Personnel in State Universities in the Southwest, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive research of the survey type. The population for the study consisted 340 library personnel from six state university libraries in Southwest, Nigeria. Total enumeration approach was adopted to cover all the 340 library personnel in the study area. The instrument for data collection was 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 had a high level of job motivation and organisational citizenship behaviour. It also revealed that job motivation (r = .484; p<0.05) has significant positive relationship with organisational citizenship behaviour of library personnel in the state universities in Southwest, Nigeria. The study concluded that a significant positive relationship between job motivation and OCB, with both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation playing important roles and that motivated employees are more likely to engage in OCB, which can benefit the organisation as a whole. The study therefore recommended that organisations should focus on enhancing job motivation among employees, so as to increase level of organisational citizenship behaviour.