This article investigates information acquisition and utilization as determinants of the problem ... more This article investigates information acquisition and utilization as determinants of the problem solving skills of managers in the microfinance banks in Nigeria. The total enumeration technique (census method) was used to cover the population size of 820 managers therein the microfinance banks in Nigeria. The validated questionnaire was used to gather data from the 820 managers out of which 615 responded given a response rate of 75 percent.The study found that information acquisition and utilization had significant correlations with the creativity of the respondents. More importantly, information acquisition and utilization were significant determinants of problem solving skills of the managers in the microfinance banks in Nigeria. It is therefore recommended that the board of management in these microfinance banks should place much priority on information acquisition and utilization when planning to improve problem solving skills of their managers.
This study investigated self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, information acquisition and utiliz... more This study investigated self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, information acquisition and utilization of determinants of effective leadership of managers in packaging companies in Nigeria. The survey method was used. Total enumeration technique and questionnaire was used for data gathering from a population size of 450 managers in the surveyed companies out of which 400 responded giving a response rate of 88.8 percent. Simple correlation and hierarchical regression analyses were used for data analysis. The study established that there were significant correlations among self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, information acquisition, information utilization and effective leadership of the respondents. It was further established that self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, information acquisition and utilization were significant determinants of effective leadership of managers in the packaging companies in Nigeria. It was therefore recommended that the board of management in the studied companies should endeavour to encourage their managers to acquire and utilize information to enhance their effective leadership. They should give selfefficacy and emotional intelligence training to their managers in order for them to be effective leaders.
Contrary to government and parental expectations, many students are still performing poorly in li... more Contrary to government and parental expectations, many students are still performing poorly in library and information science programme at the university level in Nigeria. This has been linked with low level of teaching effectiveness of educators. This paper, therefore, examines the contribution of cognitive styles, information needs, and utilization of library information resources to teaching effectiveness of educators in library and information science schools in Nigeria. Total enumeration technique coupled with a questionnaire was used to collect data on a population size 265 lecturers in 24 universities in Nigerian, out of which 200 responded given a response rate of 76%. The study found that cognitive styles, information needs, and utilization of library information resources had significant relationship with teaching effectiveness of the respondents. In addition, cognitive styles, information needs, and utilization of library information resources significantly predict teaching effectiveness of the respondents. More so, each of the independent variables: cognitive styles, information needs, and utilization of library information resources have relative contribution and significantly predicts teaching effectiveness of the respondents. The paper concludes that more focus needs to be on the practice of teaching at the university level. Consequently, it is recommended that the university authorities should consider cognitive styles, information needs, and utilization of library information resources for teaching effectiveness of educators.
The World Bank (2006) outlines the symptoms of a poor records management system as the “low aware... more The World Bank (2006) outlines the symptoms of a poor records management system as the “low awareness of the role of records management in supporting Organizational efficiency and accountability, absence of core competencies, lack of purpose built record centers ...” In a similar vein, Millar (2004) notes that “there is a general lack of recognition of the importance of records as evidence, and senior officials often tend not to recognize the need for or value of effective records programmes”. Mazikana (1996) opines that many businesses in Africa have no provision in their structure for records and information system.
This study discusses the influence of locus of control, work motivation and information use on de... more This study discusses the influence of locus of control, work motivation and information use on decision making of managers in the aviation industry in Nigeria. Stratified random sampling method was used to select 1238 managers from five aviation parastatals in Nigeria out of which 945 responded. The response rate achieved was 76.3 percent. The study found that locus of control, work motivation and information use significantly influence decision making of the respondents. It is therefore recommended that aviation industry administrators and most especially policy makers in the industry should give due attention to locus of control, work motivation and information use in order to improve the decision making of managers in the industry. From the managerial context, being aware of your employee’s internal-external locus of control can be very helpful in that individuals with high external locus are less likely to be committed to their organisation, they may feel unable to influence org...
The purpose of the present study was to find out if personal factors, psychological work climate,... more The purpose of the present study was to find out if personal factors, psychological work climate, and role related factors are the precursors of organizational commitment. The study data were collected from a sample of 651 records management employees in State Civil Services of North-west, Nigeria, using a self-designed biographical and occupational questionnaire; a psychological work climate questionnaire adopted from Brown and Leigh; a role-related factors questionnaire adopted from Rizzo et al.; and an organizational commitment (OC) questionnaire adopted from Meyer and Allen. The present study found that age, educational qualification, job tenure psychological work climate, role conflict and role ambiguity have significant correlations with organizational commitment of records management employees in State Civil Services of North-west, Nigeria. It was further found that age, educational qualification, job tenure, psychological work climate, role conflict and role ambiguity have a...
INTRODUCTIONGlobally, prisons are essentially meant to be reformatory and not merely for punishme... more INTRODUCTIONGlobally, prisons are essentially meant to be reformatory and not merely for punishment and maltreatment. But in Nigeria as in so many other developing countries, such as Sri Lanka, India, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Botswana, Kenya and the Gambia just to mention a few, the prison experiences among inmates is not just punitive but tortuous. Prisoners, rather than being meaningfully engaged in reformation and reintegration programmes, are exposed to all forms of abuse and this trend has been condemned (Alemika and Alemika, 1987).These abuses meted out on inmates often range from isolation, brutality, violence, stress, physical and psychological victimization, harassment, overcrowding and riots among other forms of abuse. Amnesty International (2008) has observed that Nigerian prisons are noted for accommodating prisoners kept in their custody in overcrowded environments. The environment in which Nigerian prison inmates are quartered has equally been criticized and described as...
The study examines the influence of work locus of control and job satisfaction on organizational ... more The study examines the influence of work locus of control and job satisfaction on organizational commitment of medical records personnel in university teaching hospitals in Nigeria. The research design was the ex-post- facto. A total of 359 medical records personnel from federal and state university teaching hospitals in Nigeria participated in the study. The instrument for data collection was the questionnaire. The results of the study reveal that organizational commitment has a significant inverse relationship with work locus of control (r = -.131, P < 0.05), but has a significant positive relationship with job satisfaction (r = . 340, P < 0.05).The study also revealed that a combination of work locus of control and job satisfaction have significant influence on the organizational commitment of medical records personnel in university teaching hospitals in Nigeria. (F = 24.900, df = 2; 356, P < 0.05). A combination of work locus of control and job satisfaction have signifi...
Aims: to evaluate the beliefs, feelings and knowledge of undergraduate medical students towards d... more Aims: to evaluate the beliefs, feelings and knowledge of undergraduate medical students towards dissection in this part of the world as an exercise in joining other researchers to solve the attendant challenges. Methods: An anonymous self-administered 17-item structured questionnaire was generated from available indexed journals admitted to preclinical medical students using a 5-point Likert scale options. collated data were entered into statistical Package for social scientists (sPss version 21) software for analysis with utilization of simple means, frequency and Kendall's coefficient of concordance. statistical significance was taken as p < 0.05. results: Out of 135 students qualified to partake in this study, only 114 returned the completed questionnaire representing a response rate of 84.4%. Kendall's coefficient of concordance revealed no significant values by comparing items 1, 2, 3, 4, and 15; items 5, 6 and 7 but significant in items 8 and 13; items 9 and 10; and items 11 and 14. conclusion: this study affirmed emotional distress as constant issue towards human cadaveric dissection and kind-heartedness to cadavers as psychosocial appraisal to the livings. Dissection was preferred to prosection in acquisition of skill and
This study examined information acquisition and utilization as determinants of organizational eff... more This study examined information acquisition and utilization as determinants of organizational effectiveness of managers in large-scale manufacturing companies specializing in industrial and domestic products in Nigeria. The questionnaire was used for data collection from the 360 sampled managers out of which 332 responded and the copies of their questionnaire were found valid for analysis. The study found that the studied companies had moderate organizational effectiveness. Information acquisition, information sources and services' utilization had significant relationship with organizational effectiveness of the respondents. However, information acquisition, information sources and services' utilization of the managers had significantly determined organizational effectiveness of the manufacturing companies specializing in industrial and domestic products in Nigeria. It was therefore recommended that the management and board of directors of the companies should encourage their managers to acquire relevant information and use it to improve their organizational effectiveness. In addition, corporate library staff should provide effective information services to the managers so as to improve organizational effectiveness of their companies.
This article analyses information availability and utilization as determinants of creativity of m... more This article analyses information availability and utilization as determinants of creativity of managers in commercial banks in Nigeria. The single stage random sampling technique was used to select 16 out of the 25 commercial banks with a population size of 1507 managers. Thereafter, a questionnaire was used to collect data on a sample size of 1179 managers out of which 932 responded given a response rate of 79.1 percent. The study found that information availability and utilization had significant correlation with creativity of the respondents. In addition, information availability and information utilization jointly and individually have significantly determined creativity of managers in commercial banks in Nigeria. It is therefore recommended that the board of management in these commercial banks should make information available on time for use of managers for their improved creativity.
Managers in insurance companies in Nigeria went through a difficult period after the recapitaliza... more Managers in insurance companies in Nigeria went through a difficult period after the recapitalization which was aimed at achieving a consolidation that will produce companies capable of meeting claims obligations, compete at the continental and global levels, increase the industry’s low retention capacity which had stunted its growth among others. This study therefore examined the organisational support, knowledge sharing and utilisation as correlates of social capital of insurance managers in Lagos metropolis. This research adopted the correlation type of descriptive survey design to determine the direction and degree of the relationship or association between variables. Total enumeration technique called census coupled with a self-developed questionnaire was used to collect data on a population size of 280 managers in 23 insurance companies in Lagos metropolis, out of which 211 responded giving a response rate of 75.4 percent.The study found out that organisational support, knowle...
∗University of Botswana, [email protected] Federal College of Forestry Library, Ibadan, Ni... more ∗University of Botswana, [email protected] Federal College of Forestry Library, Ibadan, Nigeria University of Ibadan, Nigeria This paper is posted at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/118
The study examines the influence of age, marital status, length of service and job satisfaction o... more The study examines the influence of age, marital status, length of service and job satisfaction on the organizational commitment of medical records personnel in university teaching hospitals in Nigeria. The research design was the ex-post-facto. 359 medical records personnel in federal and state university teaching hospitals in Nigeria participated in the study. The instrument for data collection was the questionnaire. The results of the study revealed that organizational commitment has significant relationship with age (r =.187, P < 0.05), marital status (r =.137, P < 0.05), length of service (r =.182, P < 0.05) and job satisfaction (r =. 340, P < 0.05). In addition, the study revealed that job satisfaction exerted a stronger relative influence on organizational commitment of respondents than other variables considered in the study. The study also revealed that the combination of age, marital status, length of service and job satisfaction have significant influence on o...
African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, 2007
This paper presents the findings of a survey on how workplace, biographical and motivational fact... more This paper presents the findings of a survey on how workplace, biographical and motivational factors affect the organisational commitment of records officers in federal universities in Nigeria. Single stage random sampling, with equal allocation method, was used to administer questionnaire on 300 sampled participants from 15 of the 25 federal universities in Nigeria. The response rate achieved was 100 percent. The study found that: there were significant differences in organisational commitment of the respondents on their marital status, work motivation and job tenure but not on their place of work (records offices)and religious beliefs. It is recommended that the records officers should be adequately motivated and qualified manpower (records managers and archivists) be recruited to serve in the records offices of the Nigerian federal universities, in order to enhance their organisational commitment and work productivity. African Journal of Library Archives and Information Science V...
The study was a survey of records management practices in circular primary schools of metropolita... more The study was a survey of records management practices in circular primary schools of metropolitan local government area of Kano state. There was a total of 8 local government areas in the metropolitan with a population of 233 circular schools. Out of the number, 104 were randomly selected for the study. A minimum of 10 copies of questionnaire were administered on each local government area. Out of the number retrieved, 75 copies were found usable. The study reveals that all the schools studied generate and receive different kinds of records which includes administrative, financial, academic etc.; over 70% of the schools either organize their records serially or by subject matter; majority (56.5%) of the schools use storage facilities such drawers, cabinets and cupboards to preserve their records; some records such as log book, financial records, admission register, store ledger, counterfoil of certificates, teachers’ personal files etc were kept on closed access by the head teacher...
This study investigated personal factors affecting organizational commitment among records manage... more This study investigated personal factors affecting organizational commitment among records management personnel in the state universities in Nigeria. Simple cluster sampling with equal allocation method was used to select 180 records management personnel from the study population. A five item organizational commitment scale developed by Ellemer , Gilder and Heuvel (1998) with (α = 0.79) reliability coefficient was used for data gathering. Six hypotheses were tested in the study. The Z-Score and X 2 tests statistic, as well as simple correlation analysis were utilized. The results showed that sex, age, marital status, length of service, and level of education affect the organizational commitment of the subjects. The study advocated for improved conditions of service to enhance organizational commitment of the records management personnel in the state universities in Nigeria. IFE PsychologIA Vol. 14(1) 2006: 183-197
PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the career commitment of records management personnel in a ... more PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the career commitment of records management personnel in a State Civil Service in Nigeria.Design/methodology/approachQuestionnaires were used to gather data from a population of 294 records management personnel in the 26 ministries/establishments of the State Civil Service. A total of 280 of them responded and their questionnaires were found to be valid for analysis. The response rate achieved was 95.2 per cent.FindingsThe study found that: there was no significant gender difference in the career commitment of the respondents, there was significant difference in the career commitment of single and married respondents; there was significant negative relationship between job tenure, levels of education and career commitment of the respondents. However, their was positive relationship between age and the respondents' career commitment. The results are based on Z‐tests at the 5 per cent significance level.Practical implicationsIt is recommended ...
This article investigates information acquisition and utilization as determinants of the problem ... more This article investigates information acquisition and utilization as determinants of the problem solving skills of managers in the microfinance banks in Nigeria. The total enumeration technique (census method) was used to cover the population size of 820 managers therein the microfinance banks in Nigeria. The validated questionnaire was used to gather data from the 820 managers out of which 615 responded given a response rate of 75 percent.The study found that information acquisition and utilization had significant correlations with the creativity of the respondents. More importantly, information acquisition and utilization were significant determinants of problem solving skills of the managers in the microfinance banks in Nigeria. It is therefore recommended that the board of management in these microfinance banks should place much priority on information acquisition and utilization when planning to improve problem solving skills of their managers.
This study investigated self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, information acquisition and utiliz... more This study investigated self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, information acquisition and utilization of determinants of effective leadership of managers in packaging companies in Nigeria. The survey method was used. Total enumeration technique and questionnaire was used for data gathering from a population size of 450 managers in the surveyed companies out of which 400 responded giving a response rate of 88.8 percent. Simple correlation and hierarchical regression analyses were used for data analysis. The study established that there were significant correlations among self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, information acquisition, information utilization and effective leadership of the respondents. It was further established that self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, information acquisition and utilization were significant determinants of effective leadership of managers in the packaging companies in Nigeria. It was therefore recommended that the board of management in the studied companies should endeavour to encourage their managers to acquire and utilize information to enhance their effective leadership. They should give selfefficacy and emotional intelligence training to their managers in order for them to be effective leaders.
Contrary to government and parental expectations, many students are still performing poorly in li... more Contrary to government and parental expectations, many students are still performing poorly in library and information science programme at the university level in Nigeria. This has been linked with low level of teaching effectiveness of educators. This paper, therefore, examines the contribution of cognitive styles, information needs, and utilization of library information resources to teaching effectiveness of educators in library and information science schools in Nigeria. Total enumeration technique coupled with a questionnaire was used to collect data on a population size 265 lecturers in 24 universities in Nigerian, out of which 200 responded given a response rate of 76%. The study found that cognitive styles, information needs, and utilization of library information resources had significant relationship with teaching effectiveness of the respondents. In addition, cognitive styles, information needs, and utilization of library information resources significantly predict teaching effectiveness of the respondents. More so, each of the independent variables: cognitive styles, information needs, and utilization of library information resources have relative contribution and significantly predicts teaching effectiveness of the respondents. The paper concludes that more focus needs to be on the practice of teaching at the university level. Consequently, it is recommended that the university authorities should consider cognitive styles, information needs, and utilization of library information resources for teaching effectiveness of educators.
The World Bank (2006) outlines the symptoms of a poor records management system as the “low aware... more The World Bank (2006) outlines the symptoms of a poor records management system as the “low awareness of the role of records management in supporting Organizational efficiency and accountability, absence of core competencies, lack of purpose built record centers ...” In a similar vein, Millar (2004) notes that “there is a general lack of recognition of the importance of records as evidence, and senior officials often tend not to recognize the need for or value of effective records programmes”. Mazikana (1996) opines that many businesses in Africa have no provision in their structure for records and information system.
This study discusses the influence of locus of control, work motivation and information use on de... more This study discusses the influence of locus of control, work motivation and information use on decision making of managers in the aviation industry in Nigeria. Stratified random sampling method was used to select 1238 managers from five aviation parastatals in Nigeria out of which 945 responded. The response rate achieved was 76.3 percent. The study found that locus of control, work motivation and information use significantly influence decision making of the respondents. It is therefore recommended that aviation industry administrators and most especially policy makers in the industry should give due attention to locus of control, work motivation and information use in order to improve the decision making of managers in the industry. From the managerial context, being aware of your employee’s internal-external locus of control can be very helpful in that individuals with high external locus are less likely to be committed to their organisation, they may feel unable to influence org...
The purpose of the present study was to find out if personal factors, psychological work climate,... more The purpose of the present study was to find out if personal factors, psychological work climate, and role related factors are the precursors of organizational commitment. The study data were collected from a sample of 651 records management employees in State Civil Services of North-west, Nigeria, using a self-designed biographical and occupational questionnaire; a psychological work climate questionnaire adopted from Brown and Leigh; a role-related factors questionnaire adopted from Rizzo et al.; and an organizational commitment (OC) questionnaire adopted from Meyer and Allen. The present study found that age, educational qualification, job tenure psychological work climate, role conflict and role ambiguity have significant correlations with organizational commitment of records management employees in State Civil Services of North-west, Nigeria. It was further found that age, educational qualification, job tenure, psychological work climate, role conflict and role ambiguity have a...
INTRODUCTIONGlobally, prisons are essentially meant to be reformatory and not merely for punishme... more INTRODUCTIONGlobally, prisons are essentially meant to be reformatory and not merely for punishment and maltreatment. But in Nigeria as in so many other developing countries, such as Sri Lanka, India, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Botswana, Kenya and the Gambia just to mention a few, the prison experiences among inmates is not just punitive but tortuous. Prisoners, rather than being meaningfully engaged in reformation and reintegration programmes, are exposed to all forms of abuse and this trend has been condemned (Alemika and Alemika, 1987).These abuses meted out on inmates often range from isolation, brutality, violence, stress, physical and psychological victimization, harassment, overcrowding and riots among other forms of abuse. Amnesty International (2008) has observed that Nigerian prisons are noted for accommodating prisoners kept in their custody in overcrowded environments. The environment in which Nigerian prison inmates are quartered has equally been criticized and described as...
The study examines the influence of work locus of control and job satisfaction on organizational ... more The study examines the influence of work locus of control and job satisfaction on organizational commitment of medical records personnel in university teaching hospitals in Nigeria. The research design was the ex-post- facto. A total of 359 medical records personnel from federal and state university teaching hospitals in Nigeria participated in the study. The instrument for data collection was the questionnaire. The results of the study reveal that organizational commitment has a significant inverse relationship with work locus of control (r = -.131, P < 0.05), but has a significant positive relationship with job satisfaction (r = . 340, P < 0.05).The study also revealed that a combination of work locus of control and job satisfaction have significant influence on the organizational commitment of medical records personnel in university teaching hospitals in Nigeria. (F = 24.900, df = 2; 356, P < 0.05). A combination of work locus of control and job satisfaction have signifi...
Aims: to evaluate the beliefs, feelings and knowledge of undergraduate medical students towards d... more Aims: to evaluate the beliefs, feelings and knowledge of undergraduate medical students towards dissection in this part of the world as an exercise in joining other researchers to solve the attendant challenges. Methods: An anonymous self-administered 17-item structured questionnaire was generated from available indexed journals admitted to preclinical medical students using a 5-point Likert scale options. collated data were entered into statistical Package for social scientists (sPss version 21) software for analysis with utilization of simple means, frequency and Kendall's coefficient of concordance. statistical significance was taken as p < 0.05. results: Out of 135 students qualified to partake in this study, only 114 returned the completed questionnaire representing a response rate of 84.4%. Kendall's coefficient of concordance revealed no significant values by comparing items 1, 2, 3, 4, and 15; items 5, 6 and 7 but significant in items 8 and 13; items 9 and 10; and items 11 and 14. conclusion: this study affirmed emotional distress as constant issue towards human cadaveric dissection and kind-heartedness to cadavers as psychosocial appraisal to the livings. Dissection was preferred to prosection in acquisition of skill and
This study examined information acquisition and utilization as determinants of organizational eff... more This study examined information acquisition and utilization as determinants of organizational effectiveness of managers in large-scale manufacturing companies specializing in industrial and domestic products in Nigeria. The questionnaire was used for data collection from the 360 sampled managers out of which 332 responded and the copies of their questionnaire were found valid for analysis. The study found that the studied companies had moderate organizational effectiveness. Information acquisition, information sources and services' utilization had significant relationship with organizational effectiveness of the respondents. However, information acquisition, information sources and services' utilization of the managers had significantly determined organizational effectiveness of the manufacturing companies specializing in industrial and domestic products in Nigeria. It was therefore recommended that the management and board of directors of the companies should encourage their managers to acquire relevant information and use it to improve their organizational effectiveness. In addition, corporate library staff should provide effective information services to the managers so as to improve organizational effectiveness of their companies.
This article analyses information availability and utilization as determinants of creativity of m... more This article analyses information availability and utilization as determinants of creativity of managers in commercial banks in Nigeria. The single stage random sampling technique was used to select 16 out of the 25 commercial banks with a population size of 1507 managers. Thereafter, a questionnaire was used to collect data on a sample size of 1179 managers out of which 932 responded given a response rate of 79.1 percent. The study found that information availability and utilization had significant correlation with creativity of the respondents. In addition, information availability and information utilization jointly and individually have significantly determined creativity of managers in commercial banks in Nigeria. It is therefore recommended that the board of management in these commercial banks should make information available on time for use of managers for their improved creativity.
Managers in insurance companies in Nigeria went through a difficult period after the recapitaliza... more Managers in insurance companies in Nigeria went through a difficult period after the recapitalization which was aimed at achieving a consolidation that will produce companies capable of meeting claims obligations, compete at the continental and global levels, increase the industry’s low retention capacity which had stunted its growth among others. This study therefore examined the organisational support, knowledge sharing and utilisation as correlates of social capital of insurance managers in Lagos metropolis. This research adopted the correlation type of descriptive survey design to determine the direction and degree of the relationship or association between variables. Total enumeration technique called census coupled with a self-developed questionnaire was used to collect data on a population size of 280 managers in 23 insurance companies in Lagos metropolis, out of which 211 responded giving a response rate of 75.4 percent.The study found out that organisational support, knowle...
∗University of Botswana, [email protected] Federal College of Forestry Library, Ibadan, Ni... more ∗University of Botswana, [email protected] Federal College of Forestry Library, Ibadan, Nigeria University of Ibadan, Nigeria This paper is posted at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/118
The study examines the influence of age, marital status, length of service and job satisfaction o... more The study examines the influence of age, marital status, length of service and job satisfaction on the organizational commitment of medical records personnel in university teaching hospitals in Nigeria. The research design was the ex-post-facto. 359 medical records personnel in federal and state university teaching hospitals in Nigeria participated in the study. The instrument for data collection was the questionnaire. The results of the study revealed that organizational commitment has significant relationship with age (r =.187, P < 0.05), marital status (r =.137, P < 0.05), length of service (r =.182, P < 0.05) and job satisfaction (r =. 340, P < 0.05). In addition, the study revealed that job satisfaction exerted a stronger relative influence on organizational commitment of respondents than other variables considered in the study. The study also revealed that the combination of age, marital status, length of service and job satisfaction have significant influence on o...
African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, 2007
This paper presents the findings of a survey on how workplace, biographical and motivational fact... more This paper presents the findings of a survey on how workplace, biographical and motivational factors affect the organisational commitment of records officers in federal universities in Nigeria. Single stage random sampling, with equal allocation method, was used to administer questionnaire on 300 sampled participants from 15 of the 25 federal universities in Nigeria. The response rate achieved was 100 percent. The study found that: there were significant differences in organisational commitment of the respondents on their marital status, work motivation and job tenure but not on their place of work (records offices)and religious beliefs. It is recommended that the records officers should be adequately motivated and qualified manpower (records managers and archivists) be recruited to serve in the records offices of the Nigerian federal universities, in order to enhance their organisational commitment and work productivity. African Journal of Library Archives and Information Science V...
The study was a survey of records management practices in circular primary schools of metropolita... more The study was a survey of records management practices in circular primary schools of metropolitan local government area of Kano state. There was a total of 8 local government areas in the metropolitan with a population of 233 circular schools. Out of the number, 104 were randomly selected for the study. A minimum of 10 copies of questionnaire were administered on each local government area. Out of the number retrieved, 75 copies were found usable. The study reveals that all the schools studied generate and receive different kinds of records which includes administrative, financial, academic etc.; over 70% of the schools either organize their records serially or by subject matter; majority (56.5%) of the schools use storage facilities such drawers, cabinets and cupboards to preserve their records; some records such as log book, financial records, admission register, store ledger, counterfoil of certificates, teachers’ personal files etc were kept on closed access by the head teacher...
This study investigated personal factors affecting organizational commitment among records manage... more This study investigated personal factors affecting organizational commitment among records management personnel in the state universities in Nigeria. Simple cluster sampling with equal allocation method was used to select 180 records management personnel from the study population. A five item organizational commitment scale developed by Ellemer , Gilder and Heuvel (1998) with (α = 0.79) reliability coefficient was used for data gathering. Six hypotheses were tested in the study. The Z-Score and X 2 tests statistic, as well as simple correlation analysis were utilized. The results showed that sex, age, marital status, length of service, and level of education affect the organizational commitment of the subjects. The study advocated for improved conditions of service to enhance organizational commitment of the records management personnel in the state universities in Nigeria. IFE PsychologIA Vol. 14(1) 2006: 183-197
PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the career commitment of records management personnel in a ... more PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the career commitment of records management personnel in a State Civil Service in Nigeria.Design/methodology/approachQuestionnaires were used to gather data from a population of 294 records management personnel in the 26 ministries/establishments of the State Civil Service. A total of 280 of them responded and their questionnaires were found to be valid for analysis. The response rate achieved was 95.2 per cent.FindingsThe study found that: there was no significant gender difference in the career commitment of the respondents, there was significant difference in the career commitment of single and married respondents; there was significant negative relationship between job tenure, levels of education and career commitment of the respondents. However, their was positive relationship between age and the respondents' career commitment. The results are based on Z‐tests at the 5 per cent significance level.Practical implicationsIt is recommended ...
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