CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma in Strategic People Management

Key topics covered:

• Practices and strategies: understand and debate the ways in which people management practices and strategies are connected to organisational outcomes and add value.

• Current strategies: evaluate current strategic practice in major areas of people management and development work.

• The role of people management: gain an understanding the role and influence of people management professionals.

• People management in context: learn the ways in which people management practice varies in different contexts.

Find out more about 7C002 – People Management and Development Strategies for Performance

Key topics covered:

• Maximising contributions: demonstrate principles and values that foster inclusivity to maximise people's contributions to organisations.

• Business performance: understand how to achieve and maintain high business performance for yourself and your organisation.

• Personal proficiency: apply learning to improve personal effectiveness.

• Influential decision-making: show ability to influence others in decision-making with courage and conviction.

Find out more about 7C003 – Personal Effectiveness, Ethics and Business Acumen

Key topics covered:

• Projects to add value: demonstrate ability to plan a people practice business research project to enhance organisational value.

• Justifying research methods: justify the best research methods to gather data for the chosen project.

• Analysis and insights: analyse data to make decisions and offer insights into business and people management.

• Drawing conclusions: propose recommendations based on conclusions drawn from the research and analysis.

Find out more about 7C004 – Business Research in People Practice

Key topics covered:

• Influence of employment relations: understand various views on employment relations and how they impact the roles of people professionals and line managers.

• External influences: evaluate how external institutions influence employment relations at an organisational level.

• Collaboration and mutuality: analyse how people professionals can collaborate with employees and their representatives to maintain mutual respect and ensure everyone has a voice.

• Mitigating risk: assess and review how people professionals collaborate with employees and trade unions to reduce organisational risks.

Find out more about 7HR01 – Strategic Employment Relations

Key topics covered:

• Evolving practices and strategies: recognise how the evolving business environment affects resourcing and talent management strategies and practices.

• Recruitment strategies: analyse organisational recruitment and selection strategies.

• Maintaining sustainable performance: evaluate the significance of workforce planning in maintaining sustainable organisational performance.

• Improving performance: review methods for enhancing individual and team performance.

Find out more about 7HR02 – Resourcing and Talent Management to Sustain Success

Key topics covered:

• Reward frameworks: assess effective reward strategies and policy frameworks.

• Total rewards: evaluate the benefits of a 'total rewards' approach.

• Structure and renumeration levels: examine pay structures and methods for determining pay levels.

• Ethical reward strategies: analyse the significance of organisational approaches to compliant and ethical reward practices.

Find out more about 7HR03 – Strategic Reward Management

Key topics covered:

• Design and development: evaluate the concepts and theories that form the foundation of organisational design and development.

• Applying design options: examine various organisational design options and how to apply them in practice.

• Achieving goals: assess how organisational development approaches help organisations to achieve their goals.

• Effective change: discuss how organisational design and development facilitate effective change.

Find out more about 7LD01 – Organisational Design and Development

Key topics covered:

• Major tech advancements: learn about key technological advancements and how they affect the design and delivery of learning and development.

• Relevance of solutions: discuss technological solutions and review their relevance within learning and development.

• Practical applications: examine how organisations put learning technologies into practice.

• Improving effectiveness: evaluate how data and artificial intelligence (AI) enhance the effectiveness of learning and development.

Find out more about 7OS03 – Technology Enhanced Learning

Key topics covered:

• Equality and diversity: discuss equality and the ideas of diversity and inclusion.

• UK labour market: evaluate the theories, segregation, and inequality in the UK labour market.

• Managing equality: assess the legal, moral, and business reasons for managing equality and diversity and fostering a culture of inclusion.

• Effective strategies: Review how effective workplace strategies are for managing equality and diversity and creating inclusive cultures.

Find out more about 7OS04 – Advanced Diversity and Inclusion

Key topics covered:

• Influences on people management: review how key strategic and contextual factors influence the management of people in global organisations.

• Differing worldwide practices: compare how and why people management practices differ across various countries and regions worldwide.

• International strategies and practices: apply appropriate and effective staffing management strategies and employment practices in international organisations.

• Sustainable international strategies: assess effective and sustainable people management practices in global settings.

Find out more about 7OS05 – Managing People in an International Context (15 credits)

Key topics covered:

• Workplace wellbeing: evaluate why wellbeing matters in the workplace.

• Links between practices and processes: examine how work, health, wellbeing, and people management practices are interconnected.

• Aligning strategies: analyse how employer and employee wellbeing fits into overall strategy

• Maintaining performance: discuss why a wellbeing strategy is crucial for maintaining organisational performance.

Find out more about 7OS06 – Wellbeing at Work