Organizational culture as driver of job performance for librarians in public university libraries in North-East, Nigeria

The performance of the academic libraries is taking internal managerial factors as key contributors since they influence the behavior of librarians and service provision. The low working performance has been one of the long-established issues in the libraries of the public universities in Nigeria, which is attributed to poor organizational cultures, especially in resource-starved regions like North-East, Nigeria. Therefore, this study investigated the influence of organizational culture as drivers of job performance of librarians in public university libraries in North-East, Nigeria. This study adopted survey research design. The population comprised 283 librarians from the twelve public university libraries in North-East, Nigeria. Total enumeration was adopted. A structured and validated questionnaire was used for data collection. Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis based on a structured questionnaire. The results showed that organizational culture positively influenced the job performance of librarians, in which the organizational culture was more important and capable of explaining 36.6 percent of the variance. The supportive cultural values for effective leadership practices were found important for enhancing the performance of librarians. The research recommends that participatory organizational cultures can be enhanced.