Organizational Culture and Turnover Intention of Librarians in Southern Nigeria

Abstract

This study sets out to investigate the relationship between organisational culture of university libraries and turnover intention of  librarians in private universities in southern Nigerian. Type of culture, bond that binds, organisational structure and leadership style were  the constructs of organisational culture investigated. The research design employed is the survey of the correlational type. The  population are all the librarians in these private university libraries making a total of 308. Census sampling technique was used to study  all of the librarians in the universities. The questionnaire was the instrument of data collection. Data collection was done by physically  administering the questionnaire to the respondents with the help of three research assistants over a four-week period. Total returned  questionnaire found usable was 289. Data from the research questions was analysed using frequency count and simple statistics while  the hypothesis posed was tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC). Findings revealed that the predominant culture of  the private universities studies is the Adhocracy culture with mean of ( x̄ = 15.61, SD = 4.60). Turnover intention of librarians was also  shown to be high with mean of (x̄ = 46.46, SD = 5.87). organisational structure was controlled and structures with a mean of ( x̄ =3.14;  SD=0.60); predominant leadership style was found to be transformational ( x̄=3.04; SD=0.64) while the bonds that holds was ( x̄ =3.12;  SD=0.50). It is recommended that library management of private universities should formulate policies that enhance bonding, structure,   leadership and culture type in order to reduce turnover intention and stem actual turnover.