CIPD Level 5 Certificate or Diploma in HR Management

The programme covers all the typical aspects of an HR manager role, each of which is a specific CIPD unit. These include:

• Developing professional practice – This unit enables you to develop a sound understanding of the knowledge, skills and behaviours required by HR professionals.
• Business issues and the context of Human Resources – You’ll examine HR’s role in strategy formulation and implementation.
• Using information in HR – In this unit, you will develop the skills you need to present business cases for HR improvements.
• Resourcing and talent planning – You’ll be introduced to the key operational tools, techniques and practices used to resource organisations effectively, including recruitment, selection, workforce planning, staff retention, succession planning, retirement and dismissal processes.
• Reward management ­– This unit provides you with a wide understanding of how the business context drives reward strategies and policies.
• Contemporary development in employee relations – This unit allows you to build on your knowledge and experience to develop the skills required to make informed and effective employment relations judgements.
• Managing and coordinating the HR function (Diploma only) – This unit introduces you to HR activity and the role of the HR function in organisations and focuses on its aims and objectives.
• Employment Law (Diploma only) – This unit introduces the major areas of employment legislation and the employment law system, focusing in particular on ways in which day-to-day HR activities are subjected to some form of regulation.