People management and development strategies for performance

Learning Objective

What You'll Learn

• To enable the learner to articulate the key objectives of people management practice within modern organisations and their connection to broader organisational goals.
• To enable the learner to analyse how organisations integrate people management practices with their strategic aims, culture, brand, and values.
• To enable the learner to compare and contrast different models of people practice management, including systemic thinking, and assess their impact on business performance.
• To enable the learner to critically analyse research demonstrating the link between people management practices and positive employer outcomes.
• To enable the learner to evaluate and contrast different approaches to developing effective people management strategies within varied organisational contexts.
• To enable the learner to assess and critique current trends and innovations in resourcing, performance management, learning and development, organisational design and development, employment relations, employee engagement, and diversity and inclusion.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand and debate the ways in which people management practices and strategies are connected to organisational outcomes and add value.
• Understand current strategic practice in major areas of people management and development work.
• Understand the role and influence of people management professionals.
• Understand ways in which people management practice varies in different contexts.

Assessment Methods

• Coursework
• Portfolio of Evidence
• Practical Demonstration/Assignment
• Task-based Controlled Assessment

Units & Credit Structure

This unit focuses on the ways in which people management professionals and the people management function in organisations create value and make a strategic contribution to the achievement of organisational objectives in different sectors and scenarios.