Core Units:

• Organizational Performance and Culture in Practice: This unit examines the connections between organizational structure and the wider world of work in a business context. It highlights the factors and trends, including the digital environment, that impact on business strategy and workforce planning, recognizing the influence of culture, employee wellbeing and behavior in delivering change and organizational performance.
• Evidence-Based Practice: This unit addresses the significance of capturing robust quantitative and qualitative evidence to inform meaningful insight to influence critical thinking. It focuses on analyzing evidence through an ethical lens to improve decision-making and how measuring the impact of people practice is essential in creating value.
• Professional Behaviors and Valuing People: This unit focuses on how applying core professional behaviors such as ethical practice, courage and inclusivity can build positive working relationships and support employee voice and wellbeing. It considers how developing and mastering new professional behaviors and practice can impact performance.

Pathway Units:

• Employment Relationship Management: This unit examines the key approaches, practices and tools to manage and enhance the employee relationship to create better working lives and the significant impact this can have on organizational performance.
• Talent Management & Workforce Planning: This unit focuses on the impact of effective workforce planning in considering the development of diverse talent pools and how to contract and onboard the workforce. It also includes analysis of the potential cost to the organization if this is poorly managed and the tools and interventions required to mitigate this risk.
• Reward for Performance and Contribution: This unit focuses on how internal and external business factors influence reward strategies and policies, the financial drivers of the organization and the impact of reward costs and rewarding performance.

Optional Units:

• Well-Being at Work: This unit explores the importance of wellbeing in the workplace and the relationship with people practices and organization strategy. The design and development of effective wellbeing program is examined to meet people and organizational requirements.
• Advances in Digital Learning & Development: This unit focuses on how digital technology can be used to enhance learning and development. It looks at existing and emerging learning technologies, the design of digital content and how the effective curation of resources can support learning. The unit also explores the skills of online facilitation and how these can be applied to maximize learner engagement in online learning experiences.
• Specialist Employment Law: This unit considers key areas of employment legislation and its legal framework, focusing on how people professionals are obliged to take account of legal requirements in different jurisdictions when carrying out the varied aspects of their role.
• People Management in an International Context: This unit is designed to provide people practitioners with the necessary knowledge and understanding to effectively manage people in an international context.