Title: Affective, Normative and Continuance Commitment of Librarians in Southwest Universities, Nigeria
Author(s): Babalola, Yemisi. T; Fagbemiro, Oluwaseun Oluropo; Soyemi, Opeyemi Deborah
Publication Year: 2022; Volume 17, Issue 1, pages 35-42

This is a descriptive based paper that gives an overview of organizational commitment and its dimensions in terms of affective, continuance, and normative commitment of librarians. Organizational commitment is the extent to which an employee develops an attachment and sense of allegiance to her organization and it has three components, namely, affective, continuance and normative. Librarians’ commitment has significant implications for achieving the university mandate, productivity and goal. University libraries may not successfully achieve their mandate of supporting teaching, learning and research without the committed efforts of librarians. The literature has however shown a decline in librarians’ commitment as evidenced by poor service delivery and a negative work attitude. Hence, the study reviewed literature on affective, normative and continuance commitment of librarians’ in Southwest universities, Nigeria. The study concluded that organizational commitment of librarians’ is germane to the productivity of the university library. It was recommended that the university management should improve the reward system and organizational support in terms of employee recognition and mentoring to further increase employee commitment in universities in Southwest, Nigeria.