USA - Workplace aggression

Forty-seven million Americans are victims of workplace aggression

Almost half of U.S. employees have been subjected to aggression in the workplace, with customers, clients and patients being the main source of attacks

UK - Employment situation

Employment Statistics

The unemployment rate has increased to 5.0% - the highest rate for 2 years.

Student section - new pages

Updated student section - The first sections are being updated and expanded (more to come):

• Introduction to HRM


• Managing People


• People management


• Background and origins of people management


• Professional managers


• The human factor


• Human Relations


• Management theory


• Development of the personnel specialism


• Management thinking


• From personnel to human resource management


• The new managerialism


• Review questions and Case Study


• Section Quiz


• Defining human resource management


• Maps and models of HRM


• The Harvard map of human resource management


• Hard HRM


• Guest's Model of HRM


• Alternative HRM Models


• Discourse of HRM

Australia - Employment situation

Unemployment stays at 5.1%

Seasonally adjusted, the number of people in employment rose by 2,100 to 10,033,000 in December.

USA - Employment situation

Unemployment rate little changed at 4.9%.

Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that payroll employment increased by 108,000 but unemployment rate little changed at 4.9 percent.

Canada - Employment situation

Unemployment edges up

Statistics Canada reports that the unemployment rate edged up by 0.1% to 6.5% in December as more people joined the job market.

Canada (Manitoba) - Employment law

Amendments to Workers Compensation Act come into effect in Manitoba

Amendments intended to improve benefits, increase prevention, and strengthen accountability and governance measures came into effect January 1 2006.

UK - Unpaid overtime

TUC says 5,000,000 work a day a week unpaid

More accurately, 4,759,000 employees worked an average of 7 hours 24 minutes a week in unpaid overtime in 2005, according to a TUC analysis of the official Labour Force Survey figures.