Issues on the relationship between job satisfaction, job attitudes and work behaviour among the staff in academic libraries*

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Nkereuwem, E.E.

Affiliations: Research Library, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria

Note: [*] Editors' note: Although this paper purports to provide analytics taken from Nigerian experience, it is published here more as an insight to the social factors operating in the less developed countries.

Abstract: The paper is a review of an analysis on a study conducted by the author to determine (if any) “The correlation between job satisfaction, performance and work behaviour among the staff in academic libraries in Nigeria”. The first part reviews theories on job satisfaction and their relevance to library work environment, as well as theories put forward by proponents of the causal approach to determinants of job satisfaction. Analysis of data on the study seem to lend credence to the fact that some of the theories appear to be irrelevant in the Nigerian context. Respondents tend to agree that what appears paramount in increasing their job satisfaction is how much money they earn. How well an employee performs on his job would be a function of how much money he hopes to take home. To him money represents everything: property, power and status. The paper recommends a number of ways high performance could be achieved in an academic library.

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-1990-10504

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 281-291, 1990