there is also a notable trend towards the greater outsourcing of HR administration, leaving HR professionals to focus on more strategic concerns related to business performance, For example, Scott(2008) reported that the UK retail arm of Barclays Bank which employs 32,00 people in UK, outsources its recruitment for permanent staff (up to senior management level) to a spacialist third-party service provider. The CIPD (2009e) also suggest that an increasing number of firms are exploring the use of HR shared service centres (either in-house or outsourced) to provide routine HR administration services, such as recruitment, payroll and traning, to all part of the business.