Relationship between rewards system and employee intention to leave: Preliminary survey of librarians in federal university libraries in Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigates the relationship between rewards system and employee intention to leave among librarians in federal university libraries in Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive research design. The purposive sampling technique was used to select a population of one hundred librarians in federal university libraries in Nigeria from the WhatsApp group platform of the Academic and Research Library Section (ARLs) of the Nigerian Library Association. The data were collected using a structured questionnaire created with Google Forms. Based on the analysis of the data, the survey result reveals a moderate relationship between rewards system and intentions to leave among the respondents. The implication of the findings is that there is a need to improve the rewards system for federal university employees to raise their job satisfaction and decrease their intentions to leave. These findings provide new data and create awareness useful for enhanced management of libraries and librarians in Nigeria.