so here goes a politically incorrect list for the frustrations with dealing with “un-professionals”, while running Digital Max Solutions 
and other organizations in the last 9 or 10 years.
1) People take the job as a training first – execution of their responsibilities second(they are less inclined to feel responsible for their jobs.)
2) ‘Grass is greener on the other side’. is killing us. Competent manpower hard to retain for more than a year.
3) Some people work hard to impress you during the early months of their career with you, and then once they win your trust, start slacking off noticeably (intentionally /unintentionally). Am i missing something here?
4) YOu would have to invest most of your resources on infrastructure management, insurance and backup/security of the infrastructure, leaving not much resources for human resources trainings and career development.
5) Work ethics is rudimentary for most people with less than 5 years of experience. “Diligence” is in short supply amongst a wide array of young professionals in Kathmandu. Again, the current brain drain is accelerating, with it, the thinking that, “life is easy out in foreign countries” is solidifying in the young generation.
6) Constant Distractions in Kathmandu seem to affect an employee’s morale more negatively than on work. Young people are more disturbed by not being able to comprehend or able to find solutions to the complex reality of Nepal.
7) Not many people are interested in questioning themselves and their bosses about the career direction/chart. (blindly following whatever is given to them or wherever they are led). Very few are inspired enough to make a career path.
8 ) Common sense (highly undervalued and extremely deficient amongst upcoming IT professionals in Nepal).
9) “The grass is greener on the other side” thought is ingrained, plastered, super-glued !
10) “Because of My family” is the primary excuse for all deal breaking, ties-breaking decisions, some of the employees make. I have rarely seen one own up to their responsibilities cleanly. Those that have owned up, i have only abundant respect for them.
Again, this applies to most professionals i have met while running DMS and talking with other entrepreneurs in Nepal running companies in Kathmandu.
I will try to write how i have tried to counter these issues in a later post (hopefully soon).
Shalu Gupta, and 
Chandradev are discussing. 
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Issac Maez 1:51 am on December 20, 2009 Permalink |
great blog post. Have a excellent year!