Research on Job Dissatisfaction and Its Impact on Private Sector Investment in Ghana

Job dissatisfaction is the psychological condition of an employee brought about by the unraveled conditions at work. Job dissatisfaction happens due to several reasons some of them are work load, lack of control, unfairness, value conflict and insufficient reward. It is said that, “job dissatisfaction is the loss of meaning in one's world”. Due to prolonged stress and frustration the employees feel that their physical and emotional strengths are exhausted. This exhaustion will lead to low productivity, high employee turnover cost and poor employee morale in an organization. This paper seeks to analyze which factors cause job dissatisfaction and to predict employee behavior at the workplace due to job dissatisfaction. The result will help investors already and those who intended to invest in the private sector of the Ghanaian economy have an idea of how to handle their employees to increase productivity. Questionnaires were used to gather data among workers of Barfuor Investment limited, a wood processing company in Ghana. The main factors that were analyzed are; Company Policy, Supervision, Relationship with the head, Working Condition, Salary and Relationship with co-workers.