A Comparative Study of the Relative Merits of Employee Commitment among the Academic Librarians in Nigerian Public and Private Universities

The study utilized the expose-facto survey design to evaluate the relative merits of employee commitment among academic librarians in Nigerian public and private universities. In a bid to effectively carry out this study, the descriptive research design was adopted. A population of four hundred academic librarians (400) was selected for the study, using random sampling technique. The questionnaire was used to gather relevant data. The data collected were analyzed using simple percentages, t-test and F- ratio. The findings revealed that academic librarians in public and private universities have Affective, Continuance and Normative commitment to their institutions. It was also observed that public university academic librarians are highly more committed to their institutions than the private ones as evidence by the calculated mean, t-test and F- ratio. The study recommended that managers of university libraries should intensify and sustain policies that will enhance the three fundamentals of commitment components, so that they can discharge better services to library users in order to enhance the efficiency of the institution and accomplish the set objectives of the university. There is also the need for training and retraining of academic librarians in both public and private universities so that they will be more affectively, continually and normatively committed to their institutions.