Abstract:
This paper studied academic staff training and development as motivation for staff productivity with reference to two University libraries as case study. The study investigated the training programmes available to the staff, how regular staff undergo training, how training and development boost their motivation and the impact of motivation on their productivity. A structured questionnaire was used to gather data from 50 academic staff of the libraries of both universities who formed the respondents. 50 copies of the questionnaire were sent but only 40 were returned. These were used for the analysis of data using means and frequency distribution as statistical tools. Findings showed that academic staff have some training and development programmes available but staff did not undertake regular training and development programmes. Further findings showed that training programmes undertaken by staff motivated them to improve on their performance. Lack of funds was found to be responsible for some programmes not regularly undertaken by staff. It was recommended that staff should undertake regular training, and such training programmes should be sustained, library management should support staff with funds to be able to undertake regular training.
