CIPD Course - Associate Diploma in People Management Level 5

This CIPD Module examines and considers:

✓  The different types of organisation structures, including the reasons underpinning them.

✓  How organisational corporate strategies are shaped by the business and external contexts.

✓  How people practices impact on organisational systems and structures.

✓  Theories and models which examine organisational and human behaviour.

Change Management Approaches

✓  The definition of diversity and inclusion.

✓  Overview of current diversity and inclusion legislation.

✓  Impact of no diversity and inclusion within culture.

✓  Theories and models of organisational culture and how people practices impact on organisational culture and behaviour.

✓  Well-being at work and the different factors which impact well-being.

✓  The relationship between the employee lifecycle and HR work.

✓  Consultation and communication processes, stakeholder analysis, needs analysis activities.

Learning Outcomes

✓  Understand the connections between organisational structure, strategy and the business operating environment.

✓  Understand organisational culture and theoretical perspectives on how people behave at work.

✓  Understand how people practice supports the achievement of business goals and objectives.

Module Code: 5CO01  |  Credit Value: 7 ECTS

What is Evidence-Based Practice?

✓  Making decisions based on effective thinking and sound evidence.

✓  Analysis tools and methods used in people practice including questioning and checking validity of sources and evidence.

✓  Principles of critical thinking.

✓  Ethical perspectives: theories of ethics.

Analysis Tools and Methods

✓  How to identify key insights into a people practice issue.

✓  Decision-making processes.

✓  Measures of work and people performance calculations and how to collate key findings.

Learning Outcomes

✓  Understand strategy for effective critical thinking and decision making.

✓  Understand the importance of decision making strategies to solve people practice issues.

✓  Be able to measure the impact and value of people practice to the organisation.

Module Code: 5CO02  |  Credit Value: 6 ECTS

This CIPD Module examines:

✓  The CIPD Profession Map and the concept of professional integrity.

✓  Recognise how personal and ethical values can be applied in the context of people practice.

✓  How to take responsibility and how to recognise when and how you would raise matters which conflict with ethical values or legislation.

✓  How to reflect on your own approach to working inclusively and building positive working relationships with others.

✓  Explore how the role of a people professional is evolving and the implications for continuing professional development, and how CPD activities impact on personal behaviour and performance.

Learning Outcomes

✓  Be able to demonstrate professional and ethical behaviours in the context of people practice.

✓  Be able to champion inclusive and collaborative strategies for building positive working relationships.

✓  Be able to demonstrate personal commitment to learning, professional development and performance improvements.

Module Code: 5CO03  |  Credit Value: 5 ECTS

This CIPD Module examines and considers:

✓  Approaches to employee involvement, participation and driving employee engagement, including how to evaluate the interrelationships between employee voice and organisational performance.

✓  The concept of better working.

✓  Emerging trends in the types of conflict and industrial sanctions.

✓  Third-party conciliation, mediation and arbitration.

✓  Legislation relating to unfair dismissal, effective grievance and discipline-handling procedures, and the main provisions of collective employment law.

Learning Outcomes

✓  Understand employee voice, engagement and practices to support better working lives.

✓  Understand different forms of conflict behaviour and dispute resolution.

✓  Understand how to manage performance.

✓  Understand the role of employment bodies in employment relations.

Module Code: 5HR01  |  Credit Value: 6 ECTS

This CIPD Module examines:

✓  How organisations strategically position themselves in competitive labour markets.

✓  The role of government, employers and trade unions in ensuring future skills needs are met.

✓  Impact of effective workforce planning and the techniques used to support the workforce planning process.

✓  Approaches to attracting, developing and retaining talent on an individual and group level through recruitment and selection processes.

✓  Benefits of diversity in building and supporting talent pools.

✓  Main types of contractual terms in employment contracts.

Learning Outcomes

✓  Understand the contemporary labour market trends and their significance for workforce planning.

✓  Understand the purpose and importance of workforce planning.

✓  Understand the purpose and impact of effective talent management.

✓  Understand the importance of managing contractual arrangements and effective onboarding.

✓  Know the importance of performance management in motivating and retaining individuals.

Module Code: 5HR02  |  Credit Value: 6 ECTS

This CIPD Module considers:

✓  Principles of reward and its importance to organisational culture and performance management.

✓  The contribution of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards.

✓  How to develop organisational reward packages and approaches.

✓  Legislative requirements that impact reward practice.

✓  Approaches to performance management.

Learning Outcomes

✓  Understand the impact of reward approaches and packages.

✓  Be able to develop insight from benchmarking data to inform reward approaches.

✓  Understand the role of people professionals in supporting line managers to make reward decisions.

Module Code: 5HR03  |  Credit Value: 6 ECTS

This CIPD Module considers:

✓  The aims and objectives of employment regulation.

✓  Role of employment law in helping to achieve social justice, inclusion and fairness in the workplace.

✓  Principles of discrimination law in recruitment, selection and employment.

✓  Legal implications to managing change including relating to transfers of undertakings.

✓  Statutory rights workers have in relation to pay, leave and working time, including maternity, paternity, adoption and flexible working rights.

Learning Outcomes

✓  Understand the purpose of employment regulations and the way it is enforced in practice.

✓  Understand how to manage recruitment and selection activities lawfully.

✓  Understand how to manage change and re-organisation lawfully.

✓  Understand how to manage issues relating to pay and working time lawfully.

Module Code: 5OS01  |  Credit Value: 6 ECTS

This CIPD Module examines:

✓  Diversity and inclusion in organisations for employees, customers and wider stakeholders, including barriers to achieving diversity and inclusion.

✓  How to develop approaches to strengthen diversity and inclusion within organisational policies and practices.

✓  The role of managers and leaders in creating a positive culture.

✓  How to engender a culture of diversity and inclusion among workers and other stakeholders.

Learning Outcomes

✓  Understand the importance of embracing diversity and inclusion in organisations.

✓  Be able to ensure diversity and inclusion is reflected and promoted in the organisation.

✓  Be able to embed best practice approaches to diversity and inclusion.

Module Code: 5OS05  |  Credit Value: 6 ECTS

Transition Arrangements

Learners who have successfully completed any of the CIPD modules below are eligible for exemption from the equivalent unit in the new qualification.

Previously Completed  →  Equivalent New Unit

✓  Units 5DER / 5CER → 5HR01 Employment Relationship Management

✓  Units 5RST / 5RTP → 5HR02 Talent Management & Workforce Planning

✓  Units 5RMT / 5RW → 5HR03 Reward for Performance and Contribution

✓  Units 5EML / 5ELW → 5HR03 Reward for Performance and Contribution

Note: Evidence to support the exemption request must be provided and verified.