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People Practice / Human Resource Management
2,000 words
Core Behaviours for People Professionals: Ethics, Professional Values and CPD
This CIPD Level 3 assessment focuses on the core behaviours expected of people professionals, with particular emphasis on ethical practice, professional values, inclusive behaviour and continuing professional development. The unit considers behaviours that people professionals should apply consistently, including when working in unfamiliar or challenging situations, to support ethical, inclusive and professionally responsible workplaces. The assessment is structured around a job-application scenario for an HR/L&D Assistant position at Nuvascare Ltd, a home-based care organisation employing more than 200 care professionals. Nuvascare emphasises honesty, kindness, openness, teamwork, learning and ethical professional behaviour, and candidates are therefore required to demonstrate how their own experience aligns with these expectations. Learners respond to five areas of assessment. They must explain ethical principles and professional values and provide an example demonstrating how a personal or professional value has influenced behaviour. They must also provide examples of complying with relevant regulation and law in a professional or educational context. The assessment additionally examines behaviours associated with effective teamwork, including contributing views, clarifying problems and working collaboratively with others. Learners then explain how they keep their professional knowledge current and identify methods used to follow developments within the people profession. The final component requires evidence of active continuing professional development (CPD). Learners provide a CPD record containing at least two recent development activities and reflect on how these activities affected their knowledge, capability or professional practice. Written responses to Questions 1–4 should total approximately 2,000 words ±10%. The CPD record is submitted as additional evidence and is excluded from the word count.
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People Analytics / Human Resource Management
2,003 words
Principles of People Analytics and Evidence-Based Decision Making
This CIPD Level 3 assessment introduces the principles of people analytics and evidence-based decision making within the people profession. It focuses on how data, professional expertise, research evidence and stakeholder information can be used to diagnose organisational issues, support rational decision making and improve people practices. The unit emphasises the practical application of analytics rather than data collection alone. The assessment uses a recruitment scenario in which the learner applies for the position of People Analytics Administrator at Company X, an organisation providing HR and people-management solutions. Learners complete an assessment pack containing eight questions designed to demonstrate understanding of how analytics can support business and people decisions. The written component requires learners to explain evidence-based practice and demonstrate how it could be applied in an organisational context. Other areas include the importance of accurate data in diagnosing problems, different forms of data measurement, the role of organisational policies and procedures in decision making, and how people professionals create value for employees, organisations and wider stakeholders. Learners must also consider how a people analytics professional can remain customer focused and standards driven. The practical analytics element uses employee overtime data from Blue Mountain Patisserie. Learners calculate average overtime for individual employees, express overtime as a percentage of normal working hours, interpret patterns within the data and identify potential organisational problems and possible solutions. Findings must then be communicated using at least two different diagrammatic formats, such as bar graphs, pie charts or line graphs. The required written evidence is approximately 1,500 words for Questions 1–6 and 500 words for Question 7, giving approximately 2,000 words in total, with the visualisations excluded from the word count.
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People Practice / Human Resource Management
2,500 words
Business, Culture and Change in Context: Organisational Acquisition Case Study
This CIPD Level 3 assessment examines how the external business environment, organisational culture and planned change influence organisations and their people. The assessment is based on a case study involving Best Pharmacy Ever (BPE), a small group of local pharmacies considering the acquisition of Emrosu, a much larger national pharmacy chain with approximately 100 stores and an established online pharmacy operation. The acquisition creates significant implications for organisational structure, culture, technology, people practices and change management. Learners are required to provide written responses to nine case-based questions. The assessment begins by examining external factors that may affect the acquisition and identifying appropriate post-acquisition business goals. It also requires consideration of the organisations' products, services and customers and the ways technology could support people professionals, improve working practices and strengthen collaboration following organisational growth. A central component of the assessment concerns organisational culture. Learners must explain the meaning and importance of culture, consider organisations as interconnected systems, and assess how the actions of people professionals can influence wider organisational outcomes. The final questions focus on planned organisational change, the contribution people professionals can make during periods of transition and the potential impact of significant change on employees. The unit therefore develops understanding of environmental analysis, organisational systems, workplace culture, technology and effective change management from a people-practice perspective. Written answers should make clear and consistent use of the case study and demonstrate application of relevant people-practice concepts rather than providing generic theoretical descriptions. The required submission is approximately 2,500 words, with a permitted variation of ±10%, subject to the CIPD word-count policy.
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