Dignity: the best retention policy

Today i gave counseling to a relative of mine.  Her parents could not make sense of what she wanted. 

Apparently, this girl of 26 who was is working for a local software company, wanted to go to Australia to do her masters degree in IT. 

However to get the visa now-a-days it is harder and there is lots of documentation procedure including the need to take a loan from one of the two authorized banks. 

Luckily or unluckily this girls’ dream to go to Australia got stuck somewhere in the process. 

I entered in to figure out how to facilitate her move to Australia but it turned out the problem is totally somewhere else.  And where it is, it is not good for Nepal. 

I asked her why she wanted to go there.  She kept saying for a better job.  I asked her how she would define a better job.  I asked her what salary she was drawing now and how much she wanted to draw in Australia.  But she was dumb on this. 

Then i said, do you want a sense of achievement and she said yes.  Then suddenly she cried and said i want appreciation and a good working environment. 

It was obvious that it was missing at her current job. 

In her mind, she wanted to go to Australia in hope to be qualified enough to deserve appreciation and respect. 

What does this mean?  It means all our young people are leaving us because we are not appreciating them.  Who do we think will run this country?  We are scaring the youth away.  She wants to go and take all these risks in the hope to escape the lack of dignity she has to put up here.  Will she get dignity there?  Certainly not but what stops them from dreaming it will come? 

It is time we change our culture at work and start helping the youth live with dignity. 

Extrapolating from this, I believe that companies can retain their staffs if they too adopt a new culture of allowing the youth to live in dignity.