Abstract:
The main purpose of this study was to find the effects of motivational factors
and recruitment policy on career development of the University Library
Professionals. The biggest management challenge faced by the universities
today is how to make their professionals motivated. Hence, the present study
emphasised that the motivational factors and recruitment policy influence the
attitude of the professionals, which in turn leads to the career development of
the university library professionals.
The main objectives of the study is to evaluate whether the motivational factors
positively influence the attitude of the University Library Professionals and
also to establish the relationship between the recruitment policy of the
University Library System and the attitude of University Library Professionals.
Further, it is to identify the impact of the Library Professionals' attitude in the
process of career development in the University Library System. In this regard,
motivational factors, recruitment policy, attitude of the professionals and career
development have been chosen as the variables of this study and the attitude of
the professionals has been identified as an intervening variable.
All the Professionals of the University Libraries, as they are directly
responsible for the University Libraries, considered as the population and the
questionnaire survey was the method mainly exercised for the purpose of data
collection. Motivational factors and recruitment policy, being the major criteria
in this study, universities that practice motivation and recruitment policy have
been chosen in the hope that there would be a favourable relationship among
the higher authorities and the library professionals, so that the reality may be
measured and the questionnaire may achieve its intended targets. The
researcher has successfully retrieved 102 questionnaires (91%).
