CIPD Level 5 Associate Diploma in People Management

This course is perfect for HR/people professionals who wish to expand their knowledge and enhance their professional development. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career and substantiate your experience with this level 5 Associate Diploma. The Level 5 Associate Diploma in People Management is ideal for demonstrating your experience in the HR/people profession and your capability as a HR practitioner. During this course, you’ll cover topics such as organisational performance, talent management, employment relationship management and rewarding performance and contribution. You’ll also choose one optional unit from a choice of three, including specialist employment law, advances in digital learning and development and wellbeing at work.

Course Content

Unit 1 Organisational performance and culture in practice

• Connections between organisational strategy and the business operating environment.
• External factors and trends impacting organisations.
• Culture and how this can affect behaviour at work.
• Employee wellbeing and behaviour in delivering change and organisational performance.

Unit 2 Evidence-based practice

• Strategies for effective critical thinking and decision making.
• Analysis tools and methods and how they can be applied to diagnose organisational issues, challenges and opportunities.
• Principles of critical thinking.
• How ethical perspectives can influence decision-making.
• Measuring the impact and value of people practice to improve decision-making and how measuring the impact of people practice is essential in creating value.

Unit 3 Professional behaviours and valuing people

• Professional and ethical behaviours in the context of people practice.
• The importance of people feeling valued.
• Working inclusively and building positive working relationships.
• Demonstrating a personal commitment to learning, professional development and performance improvement.

Unit 4 Employment relationship management

• Key approaches, practices and tools to manage and enhance the employee relationship.
• Different forms of conflict behaviour and dispute resolution.
• Managing performance, disciplinary matters and grievance lawfully.
• The role of employee bodies in employment relations.

Unit 5 Talent management and workforce planning

• Labour market trends and their significance for workforce planning.
• Effective workforce planning.
• Succession and contingency planning.
• Recruitment and selection.
• Effective talent management.
• Contractual arrangements and effective onboarding.

Unit 6 Reward for performance and contribution

• Reward approaches and packages.
• Developing insights from data to inform approaches to reward.
• Supporting line managers to make reward decisions.

Optional unit 1 Specialist employment law

• Key areas of employment legislation and its legal framework.
• Managing recruitment and selection practices lawfully.
• Managing change and re-organisation lawfully.
• Managing issues relation to pay and working time lawfully.

Optional unit 2 Advances in digital learning and development

• Technology and its key role in learning and development.
• Existing and emerging technologies.
• Creating engaging learning content.
• Values of online learning.

Optional unit 3 Wellbeing at work

• Wellbeing and its importance in the workplace.
• Developing a wellbeing programme.