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How you’d get this certificate

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  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer OTHM Qualifications has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and OTHM Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from OTHM Qualifications.

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01What it is

The OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Human Resource Management is intended to provide learners with the skills and understanding for effective human resource management (HRM). It supports strategic decision-making and helps maintain an organisation's competitive edge. The diploma covers strategic HRM, employee engagement, leadership development, global resourcing, talent management, and employment relations.

These are the units OTHM Qualifications registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with OTHM Qualifications. It does the teaching and the mapping. OTHM Qualifications sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Business Research Methods Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
You'll learn to identify research problems, formulate objectives, and conduct litreature reviews. The unit covers designing appropriate business research methodologies and developing detailed research proposals with justified methodological choices.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify research problems and formulate research objectives.
  • Understand how to review the literature on a research topic.
  • Design appropriate business research methodologies.
  • Develop a research proposal.
Engagement of Employees and Organisational Learning Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
You'll understand the role and goals of the Human Resource function in contemporary organisations. The unit covers designing and implementing HR action plans to promote employee engagement, organisational learning, and performance management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of the Human Resource function in contemporary organisations.
  • Understand the goals of Human Resource management.
  • Understanding, designing and implementation of HR action plans for promoting employee engagement and organisational performance.
  • Understand the correlation between organisational performance and management of Human Resources.
Global Resourcing, Talent and Reward Management Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
You'll examine challenges in global talent management and its alignment with organisational strategy. The unit covers performance and reward management analysis, and the design and implementation of global performance and reward systems.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the challenges involved in global talent management.
  • Understand the Relationship between Global talent Management and Organisational strategy.
  • Analyse performance and reward management in organisations.
  • Understand the design and implementation of performance and reward management systems within the environment of the organisation.
Leadership Development and Performance Management Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
It teaches you to understand leadership and management concepts and their development within organisations. You'll analyse leadership theories, development programmes, and the roles of motivation, teamwork, and communication in effective leadership.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concepts of leadership and management.
  • Understand learning and development in leadership and management.
  • Understand leadership and management development programmes.
  • Understand the role of motivation, teamwork and effective communication in effective leadership.
Managing Employment Relations and Employment Law Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit provides learners with a comprehensive understanding of employment law concepts, including recruitment legislation and employment protection. You'll analyse organisational employment relations processes, functions, and procedures within legal and ethical frameworks.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand key concepts in employment law in a country.
  • Understand recruitment and selection legislation in a country.
  • Understand aspects of employment protection given to different types of workforce.
  • Analysing organisational-level employment relations processes, functions and procedures.
Strategic Human Resource Management Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit introduces learners to strategic human resource management within organisations. You'll analyse human resource planning, evaluate external business environment impacts, and plan effective human resource strategies aligned with organisational goals.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of strategic management of human resources.
  • Understand human resource planning in an organisation.
  • Understand how contemporary issues in external business environment impact organisations and the management of Human Resources.
  • Plan effective human resource strategies.
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03Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

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Where this can lead

Global Talent Management Director

This work can lead to leading a global talent function, an executive HR role, or becoming a specialist in a particular area of talent strategy.

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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 7 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by OTHM Qualifications rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Business Research MethodsEngagement of Employees and Organisational LearningGlobal Resourcing, Talent and Reward ManagementLeadership Development and Performance ManagementManaging Employment Relations and Employment LawStrategic Human Resource Management

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach You have to open the conversation in “Leadership Development and Performance Management”. Say the first line to me, exactly as you would say it to them.
You I wanted to have a quick chat about how things have been going recently.
The Coach That is the warning shot, and they will spend it worrying. Try the version that says what this is about in the first sentence.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Rehearse the conversation Apply

    “Leadership Development and Performance Management” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.

  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Strategic Human Resource Management” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.

  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “Business Research Methods” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.

  • Lead it Apply

    “Global Resourcing, Talent and Reward Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Business Research Methods, one of this qualification's own units.

Business Research Methods Level 7

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Global Talent Management DirectorSenior Global Talent Management SpecialistGlobal Talent Management SpecialistManager, Organisational & Talent DevelopmentDirector, Global Talent ManagementGlobal HR Generalist

Learners will develop skills to identify research problems, formulate objectives, and conduct litreature reviews. The unit covers designing appropriate business research methodologies and developing detailed research proposals with justified methodological choices.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Built for OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Human Resource Management

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.

  1. Business Research Methods
  2. Engagement of Employees and Organisational Learning
  3. Global Resourcing, Talent and Reward Management
  4. Leadership Development and Performance Management
  5. Managing Employment Relations and Employment Law
  6. Strategic Human Resource Management
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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