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The study investigated the influence of leadership style, organizational justice, and human capital development on employee commitment in university libraries in South-West, Nigeria.The study adopted survey research design. The population of the study consisted of 684 librarians from 43 universities in the six states of South-West, Nigeria. Total enumeration was used to cover all the professional and para-professional library personnel. A validated questionnaire was used for data collection. A return rate of 72% was achieved. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential (linear and multiple regression) statistics. The study revealed that leadership style, organizational justice and human capital development jointly had a significant influence on employee commitment in the university libraries (F(3,488) = 82.89, Adj R²= .333, p<0.05). The result further revealed that unclear organizational policies (42%), lack of supervisor support (41%), denial of promotion and entitlements (39%) and lack of career opportunities (34%) were some of the challenges affecting librarians' commitment in university libraries. The study concluded that the level of employee commitment in university libraries was fairly high. The study therefore recommended that university library management should deploy means to further increase employee commitment by providing good conditions of service such as regular promotion, salary increment and provision of career opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to find relationship of leadership style of Chief Librarians, with organizational culture and employee commitment in university libraries in Pakistan. Data for the research were collected through a survey of public and private sector universities in Punjab (province) and federal capital of Pakistan. The university libraries having more than three library professionals were included in selected sample. The perception of Chief Librarians' leadership style was taken from their subordinate professionals and its relationship was found with the culture of organization and job commitment. 115 respondents' data, collected through structured questionnaire, based on t-test, Chi-square and ANOVA tests to find the relationship among relevant variables has been presented in this paper. No significant relationship was found between leadership style and organizational culture in public sector universities, while private sector university libraries exhibit that there is significant relationship between leadership style and organizational cultures in private sector universities. There is no relationship between leadership style and employee commitment in public and private sector university libraries. A significant relationship between organizational culture and employee commitment in was found in both private and public sector universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to find relationship of leadership style of Chief Librarians, with organizational culture and employee commitment in university libraries in Pakistan. Data for the research were collected through a survey of public and private sector universities in Punjab (province) and federal capital of Pakistan. The university libraries having more than three library professionals were included in selected sample. The perception of Chief Librarians' leadership style was taken from their subordinate professionals and its relationship was found with the culture of organization and job commitment. 115 respondents' data, collected through structured questionnaire, based on t-test, Chi-square and ANOVA tests to find the relationship among relevant variables has been presented in this paper. No significant relationship was found between leadership style and organizational culture in public sector universities, while private sector university libraries exhibit that there is significant relationship between leadership style and organizational cultures in private sector universities. There is no relationship between leadership style and employee commitment in public and private sector university libraries. A significant relationship between organizational culture and employee commitment in was found in both private and public sector universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]