Work Recruitment Factors as Indices for Staff Employment in Federal University Libraries of South West Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated work recruitment factors as indices for staff employment in federal university libraries in South-West, Nigeria. The population of the study comprised of one hundred and forty three (143) professional and para-professional librarians in Hezekiah Oluwanmi library, Obafemi Awolowo University library and Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan. The study adopted the expost-facto research design while census sampling technique was used in selecting the respondents for the study. The instrument for data collection tagged “Work Recruitment Factors as indices for Staff Employment Questionnaire (WRFISEQ)” was administered to the respondents and used for the study. 20 librarians were used to produce the reliability coefficient of .85 proving the instrument to be reliable for the study. Data collected were analyzed with mean (x), standard deviation and simple linear regression to answer the research questions while t-Test, ANOVA and regression analysis were used to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. From the results of the data analysis, it was observed that there is a significant influence of factors for interpersonal relationship and indigene-ship on staff employment in federal university libraries in South-West Nigeria. The conclusion was that work recruitment factors influence the employment of staff in federal university libraries in South-West, Nigeria. It was therefore recommended that prospective employees should endeavor to play down on these factors during staff employment to enable the right prospects be employed in federal university libraries.

Keywords: Work recruitment factors, Interpersonal relationship, Indigene-ship and staff employments.