The Impacts of Job Satisfaction on Employees' Productivity in the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia

This study concentrated on the effects of job satisfaction on employees’ productivity and organizational performance. The study's main objective was to investigate the impacts of job satisfaction on employees’ productivity in the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR), Namibia, with the Windhoek Head Office staff complement as the population. Secondary data were gathered from the Ministry’s HR database, while Primary data were acquired from the sampled participants. The research strategy used in this study to do the investigation was the quantitative method, and a Google form questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection. SPSS was used to analyze the collected data. The researcher tested whether job/employee satisfaction affects the performance of individual employees and the entire Ministry’s productivity. Outcomes indicate that different job satisfaction aspects affect employees variously, but overall, when employees are satisfied or are not satisfied, this seriously impacts their performance. It can then be safely concluded that without a doubt that there is a correlation/relationship between the extent to which employees are satisfied at work and their level of output. It is the individual’s production that amounts to the organization’s productivity. On the other hand, a dissatisfied employee is a low-productive employee. This study recommends that the MFMR and the public sector at large relook into factors that boost employee/job satisfaction and employ them in order to enrich their compensation packages. This will make the Ministry and the public sector to be the ‘employer of choice’.