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Prioritizing key activities and focusing on strategic areas of concern continues to be a challenge for majority of HR professionals. Most of the studies which focus on challenges faced by HR professional continues to highlight the ever increasing pressure of attracting, engaging in retaining talent. In a recent study by i4cp when respondents were asked about the main barriers facing HR in 2008, 44% of the 355 responding companies rated lack of time as having a high or very high impact on HR’s ability to achieve its goals. “HR professionals are singing a familiar refrain,” said Donna J. Bear, senior research analyst at i4cp. “They’re citing not enough time, talent or money and too many conflicting priorities as top impediments to accomplishing their employers’ goals.” Besides not having enough time, nearly four in 10 respondents cited “conflicting organizational priorities, ” “scarcity of workforce talent” and “financial resources” as having a high or very high impact on achieving thei...

Here are some of the interesting posts from the HR blogosphere for the week. I’m sure readers will enjoy going through the posts. Career bright on working from Home and how it is important to be self-directed and self-motivated to be able to work from home completely. David Zinger has an interesting post on Employee engagement where he illustrates through this video on the concept of learned helplessness that contributes to disengagement at work. Heather Hughes shares her personal experience of how she escaped her newspaper job to start her own Business -- and how others can leaern from her experience as well. Rowan hosts the Carnival of HR 30 . A Bob Brady post on no I-PODs at work has most of readers disagreeing to the idea.

The new layout of this blog got some good news as well.HR funda got featured in the ALLTOP list under careers section. Guy Kawasaki took less than a minute to confirm the inclusion after my request. I also joined the HR Guru community (part of Monster group) and got the invite from TessaT to contribute as a featured blogger. Looking forward to share and connect with the HR community on HR Guru.