Abstract: | The literature on job satisfaction and work attitudes clearly shows that salary or money is one disputed source of people's motivation to work. However, researchers in this area do not seem to have addressed themselves to one pertinent question: Do workers sometimes present low wages or salary as a meaningful and acceptable object for complaint and strike action while the real motivating cause for their discontent or action may be low social prestige which their work is giving them, or their desire to be treated with dignity by their employers or their perceived need for improvement in any other conditions of service? This article examines this question. The substantive empirical evidence which suggests that sometimes workers disguise other causes of their job dissatisfaction in the form of inadequate salary comes from a study of teacher satisfaction, attrition, and dropout in the Republic of Ghana (Bame 1972). The object of this study was to identify and analyze factors and sources of Ghanaian elementary teachers' satisfaction and dissatisfaction in teaching and the consequences of these attitudes. Ref., tables. |