The relationship between work performance and work design of academic librarians in Malaysia / Mohd Faizal Hamzah

Issues related to individual performance, well-being, and competencies (COM) are never-ending. Researchers are still examine and observe the dimension and motivation factors that influence employees’ performance. By looking for a new research setting, work performance (WP) and work design (WD) among academic librarian in Malaysia is the central theme for this study. The discussions related to the theme have been well documented to understand the subject matter. The researcher has also unveiled the connotation of COM into the proposed relationship. The study has identified several research gaps which lead to this study. In the current practice, WP of the academic librarian was measured based on the task fulfillment per se. WD has been completely ignored during the design of the job scope of the academic librarian. The previous study on WP and COM among librarian botched to provide an empirical study on WD. Hence, there is lack of established theories, model and framework can be referred. As the results, academic librarians experience overload role and tend to burnout because of the transformation of the job scope. Besides that, the futility of previous studies in providing the evidence of the relationship between WD and librarian core COM.