An entrepreneur, Nana Opare Okoampa, says the poor work attitude displayed by many employees is killing a lot of businesses.
Speaking on Joy FM's Super Morning Show on Thursday, he lamented how entrepreneurs invest so much into starting up and managing their businesses but suffer great losses due to dishonesty and poor staff work attitudes.
“In my case, I run a phone distributing business and a hotel as well. You have staff who are just dishonest. You put someone in the shop to run it, and once the daily sales get into their hands, make sure that at the end of the day, you go and take your money because they’ll have a change of mind and spend it,” he said.
Recounting his personal experience, the entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience said some employees also pilfer, mostly absent or late to work while others leave before closing hours, etc.
“They open the shop late, and they close early, before closing time. Some of them inflate prices of your goods and a whole lot other discouraging things,” he said.
The entrepreneur added that without robust internal general controls, businesses could barely survive.
He commented on the back of the Finance Minister’s comment that students must take charge of their future through entrepreneurship since the government payroll is full.
Nana Opare Okoampa said although government has rolled out juicy policies, it has failed to ensure that the policies are efficiently enforced.
He recounted an instance where he had to pay about ¢10,000 as proper tax whiles government has instituted a three to five year tax holiday for entrepreneurs in the country.
He said such things, when not checked, will continue to collapse businesses.
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