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A Study on the Relationship between Organizational Performance and Organizational Communication in Public Libraries: Based on Service Quality Measured with LibQUAL+™

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2014, 31(3), pp.65~87
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2014.31.3.065
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : August 16, 2014
  • Accepted : September 17, 2014
  • Published : September 30, 2014

Jihye Kim 1 GIYEONG KIM 1

1연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

Organizational communication is an element of organizational structure formation; it is also a process of achieving organizational goals through the information sharing among the staff members in the organization as a social system. Organizational performance is a multidimensional concept composed of efficiency and effectiveness and satisfaction. Effectiveness implies service quality and the degree of goal achievement. Service quality by using the LibQUAL+™ model can be considered as an objective performance measure for libraries. This study aims to identify the effect of organizational communication in public libraries on service quality as a performance measure using the LibQUAL+™ model through statistical analyses of the results from questionnaire surveys of librarieans and users in 8 public libraries in Seoul metropolitan area. The result says the characteristics of organizational communication(upward, horizontal, downward communication) affects the three elements in the library service quality, such as affect of service, information control and library as place.

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