ORGANISATIONAL JUSTICE AND LIBRARIANS’ DIGITAL SECURITY BEHAVIOURS IN UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH-EAST, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study focused on Organisational Justice and Librarians’ Digital Security Behaviours in Universities in South-East, Nigeria. The study adopted a survey design, with a sample of two hundred and ninety-five respondents, of which two hundred and forty-one were returned and used for this study. A structured questionnaire was the instrument for data collection with a return rate of 82%. The data generated were analyzed using simple percentages, frequency tables, mean, standard deviation, and regression analysis. The study used descriptive and inferential statistics. The result revealed that among the security behaviour indicators, top on the list of digital security behaviours commonly practiced by librarians in university libraries in South-East, Nigeria was securing mobile devices (? = 4.15, SD = 1.019), antivirus protection (? = 3.88, SD = 1.178), scheduled backups (? =3.76, SD = 1.227) and firewall (? =2.85, SD = 1.403). The findings also revealed that strong passwords (? = 2.5082; SD = 1.303) and securing laptops were sometimes practiced whereas the respondents do not participate in annual security awareness training. Findings further showed that all the three dimensions of organizational justice indicated high; interactional justice with highest mean of (?= 3.73, SD = 0.960), distributive justice (?= 3.62, SD = 0.952) and procedural justice with lowest mean of (?= 3.49, SD = 1.043). The study further shows that organizational justice has a positive and significant influence on librarians’ security behaviour in university libraries in South-East, Nigeria (R2 = 0.126, ? = 0.355, t (239) = 5.872, p < 0.05). The study concluded that organizational justice, play important roles in enhancing and ensuring librarians’ digital security behaviours in university libraries in South-East, Nigeria. The study recommended among others that university libraries management in collaboration with the university authorities should endeavour to sustain and possibly improve the level of organizational justice in their libraries. Furthermore, library authorities should ensure that librarians are sensitized on the importance of using strong password in their computers, making sure backups are done regularly.