Effect of Financial Remuneration and Gender on Turnover Intentions Among Librarians

Abstract

The study is to determine the effect of unpleasant financial remuneration and gender on turnover intentions among librarians. Five hundred and sixty-four (564) librarians from all the universities in Nigeria participated in this study. Three hundred and three (303) or 53.7% were female and 46.3% or 261 were male. The participants were selected through simple random sampling. .The ages of the participants ranged between 25 to 60 years with a mean age of 36.23 years and standard deviation of 10.48. Two different instruments were used to obtain data for this study. They include: a six item Turnover Invention Scale and twenty (20) item Pay Satisfaction questionnaire. Data collected were analyzed using 2 by 2 factor analysis which facilitated a two way analysis of variance (2 WAY ANOVA) was used to test the hypotheses. The finding shows that the first hypothesis which stated that there is no significant difference between high and low pay satisfaction on turnover intentions among librarians was not confirmed at level of significance. In contrast, the second hypothesis which stated that there is no significant difference between male and female librarians on turnover intentions was confirmed at level of significance.