Title: Employee Relations Job Satisfaction and Employee Commitment of Librarians in universities in Ondo State Nigeria
Author(s): Adetola A. Akanbiemu
Publication Year: 2021; Volume 16, Issue 3, pages 1-16

Purpose For academic librarians to survive and fulfil their mandate commitment is key. InrnNigeria the turnover rate and mobility appear relatively high. It could be attributed to thernfact that they are not satisfied or simply that their relationship with each other is strained.rnTherefore the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between employeernrelations job satisfaction and commitment of librarians in universities in Ondo State.rnDesignmethodologyapproach - A survey design was employed in the study. The populationrncomprised 90 librarians using total enumeration technique. Data was collected with the aidrnof a questionnaire. A response rate of 93.3 was achieved. Descriptive statistics pearsonrncorrelations coefficient and linear regression analyses were used to analyse the data.rnFindings - The findings found that in general librarians are highly committed to their jobsrnmean 3.14. Normative commitment is greater than the level of affective commitment meanrn 2.82 and continuance commitment mean 2.77. Overall average mean of employeerncommitment mean2.82 followed by job satisfaction mean 2.80. There was nornsignificant relationship between employee relationship and commitment r0.691 P 0.05rnbetween employee relation and employee commitment. Employee commitment is notrnsignificantly related to job satisfaction r0.857 P0.05. The combined effect of employeernsatisfaction and employee relation does not show a combined effect on employee commitmentrnR 0.774 p 0.05.rnOriginalityValue - In contrast to other literature reviewed this study shows no relationshiprnbetween the variables. This suggests that other factors may be involved in employeerncommitment besides job satisfaction and employee relations. Employee commitment remainsrncrucial to achieving library objectives. Developing policies and programs that encouragerncommitment in libraries by the management would be helpful.