Leadership Styles and Job Security as Predictors of Staff Productivity in Polytechnic Libraries in South-East, Nigeria

Abstract

The researchers examined “Leadership styles and job security as predictors of staff productivity in polytechnic libraries in South-East, Nigeria”. The study was guided by two research questions and two null hypotheses. A correlation research design involving simple linear correlation was adopted for the study. The population of the study consists of one hundred and sixty (160) professional and paraprofessional library staff of seven polytechnic libraries in South-East, Nigeria which was also used as the sample of the study. A researcher-made questionnaire rated with a 4-point scale and titled “Leadership Styles and Job Security as Predictors of Staff Productivity in Polytechnic Libraries in South- East, Nigeria (LSJPPPL)" was used for data collection. The research instrument was validated by specialists from Library and Information Science and Measurement and Evaluation. The reliability of the instrument was obtained through trial testing and analyzed with Cronbach alpha statistics, which gave an index of 0.89. The research questions were answered using Pearson (r) and the hypotheses were tested using t-test statistics at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The findings revealed that there is a significant positive and moderate relationship between leadership styles, job security, and library staff productivity in the libraries studied. The researchers recommend that the management of polytechnic libraries should ensure that they carry along every staff member in their leadership and provide feedback to the staff regularly since this influences the staff's productivity, and also the library management, and the management of the polytechnics should assure the library staff of their job security so as to positively influence their staff's productivity.