The purpose of this study is to examine leadership qualities and style as panacea for job productivity and effective service delivery among library staff members in academic libraries in Nigeria. This study will help to ascertain the leadership style that is mostly adopted by university library management staff members in university libraries in South South, Nigeria, ascertain the type of leadership style that can be adopted by library management to attain productivity and effective service delivery among staff members in university libraries in South South, Nigeria and identify the leadership qualities that allows for productivity and effectiveness of staff members in university libraries in South South, Nigeria among others.,A descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. The target population for this study comprises 672 library staff members from 23 university libraries across the South South region of Nigeria. Total enumeration sampling technique was used to sample the entire population. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire. A total of 672 copies of the questionnaire were administered and total of 623 were duly completed and found useable, therefore there was 93% response rate. The data collected for this study was analyzed using simple percentage/frequency counts and weighed mean.,Finding from the study revealed that the leadership style mostly adopted and practiced by the staff members at the management level in academic libraries in South South, Nigeria is the autocratic type of leadership. Also, Almost all library staff members in academic libraries in South South, Nigeria upholds the view that democratic type of leadership, if practiced by staff members at the management level in academic libraries will allow for maximum job productivity and effectiveness among library staff members, that commitment and passion for their job, excellent communication skills, good decision-making skill, delegation of authority/subordinate empowerment among others are qualities a good leader.,This submission is a work by the researcher and to the best of the researcher's knowledge contains no materials previously published or written by another person.

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领导素质和风格：尼日利亚南南部学术图书馆图书馆工作人员提高工作效率和有效服务交付的灵丹妙药

本研究的目的是检验作为尼日利亚学术图书馆图书馆工作人员工作生产力和有效服务提供的灵丹妙药的领导素质和风格。这项研究将有助于确定尼日利亚南南部大学图书馆的大学图书馆管理人员主要采用的领导风格，确定图书馆管理人员可以采用的领导风格类型，以提高员工的生产力和有效的服务提供尼日利亚南部大学图书馆的成员，并确定能够提高尼日利亚南部大学图书馆工作人员生产力和效率的领导素质。本研究采用了描述性调查研究设计。本研究的目标人群包括来自尼日利亚南南部地区 23 所大学图书馆的 672 名图书馆工作人员。使用总枚举抽样技术对整个人口进行抽样。用于数据收集的工具是结构化问卷。问卷共发放 672 份，其中 623 份按时完成并发现可用，因此有 93% 的回应率。本研究收集的数据使用简单的百分比/频率计数和加权平均数进行分析。从研究中发现，尼日利亚南南部学术图书馆管理层的工作人员大多采用和实践的领导风格是专制型领导。此外，几乎所有南南学术图书馆的图书馆工作人员，