CIPD Advanced Award: HRM in Context

CIPD Advanced Award: HRM in Context

The new Advanced Level Awards in Human Resources from CIPD enable you to broaden and deepen your knowledge and skills on a particular subject while providing an ideal opportunity for supporting continuing professional development (CPD).

This module provides learners, first, with an understanding of the principal internal and external environmental contexts of contemporary organisations, including the managerial and business context, within which managers, HR professionals and workers interact in conditions of environmental turbulence, change and uncertainty. Second, the module examines how those leading organisations respond to these dynamic environmental contexts. Third, the module indicates how leaders in organisations, and those in the HR function, and line managers with HR responsibilities, need to recognise and acknowledge that corporate decisions and HR choices are not always shaped by managers alone. 

Entry Requirements

This is a Level 7 programme and requires a good level of HR experience. 

The Advanced Level Award in Human Resources are for those who:

  • Have the responsibility for HR decision-making within an organisation at either operational, tactical or a more strategic level
  • Are HR professionals in a team or HR functional management role, and are seeing to enhance and develop their career
  • Have responsibilities for the HR function and activities within an organisation without a specialist function
  • Are independent or employed consultants who support organisations in meeting their goals.

Where will I go from here?

As all the modules form part of the Advanced level diploma, you can also use your award to work towards meeting the knowledge requirements for CIPD professional membership (Associate, Chartered Member or Chartered Fellow) by taking additional modules to achieve a full Advanced level diploma. 

What will I gain?

On completion, you'll receive a CIPD Advanced Award in Human Resources.

Assessment

Assessment for this module is by way of a CIPD-set exam. However, it should be noted that there are also ICS assessments for you to complete that have been devised to prepare you fully for your final CIPD assessments.

What will I get?

Because we're experts in home learning, ICS knows about and offers all the support you need along the way.  You'll receive study materials that have been specially designed for distance learning, and have access to both your tutors and mentor online and over the phone.

You'll also be part of the ICS Online Student Community, where you'll have access to library materials and your account information, as well as vital links with your fellow students.

It's an essential part of your studies to keep up to date with recent research in Human Resources so you will also have access to 'InfoTrac' - an online source of access to thousands of journals.

You will also receive the following textbook:Human Resource Management in a Business Context(2010), by Kew, J and Stredwick J, CIPD Publishing.

Hours of study

75 guided learning hours plus further self study.

Support period

9 months

Course code

Q11

Course cost

£1680.00

Additional fees

CIPD membership is not necessary when studying for an Award in Human Resources, although there is a one-off payment of £30 to CIPD.

Workshop* and exam fees are additional to course fees.


* An integral part of your Advanced level Award is your attendance at residential workshops at one of two hotels in a central UK location.

Workshop tuition costs are included in the cost of your course but there are additional fees payable to the hotel for use of hotel services, accommodation, meals, etc.  However ICS has negotiated reduced rates with the hotels on your behalf.

See your course content

To achieve an Advanced Level Award in Human Resources, you need a total of15 credits.Each module delivered by ICS is worth 15 credits.

Key Topics

The Learning Outcomes for this module are shown below. By the end of this module, you will be able to:

  • Understand, analyse and critically evaluate contemporary organisations and their principal environments.
  • Understand, analyse and critically evaluate the managerial and business environment within which HR professionals work.
  • Understand, analyse and critically evaluate how organisational and HR strategies are shaped by and developed in response to internal and external environmental factors.
  • Understand, analyse and critically evaluate the market and competitive environments of organisations and how organisational leaders and the HR function respond to them.
  • Understand, analyse and critically evaluate globalisation and international forces and how they shape and impact on organisational and HR strategies and HR practices.
  • Understand, analyse and critically evaluate demographic, social and technological trends and how they shape and impact on organisational and HR strategies and HR practices.
  • Understand, analyse and critically evaluate government policy and legal regulation and how these shape and impact on organisational and HR strategies and HR practices.

 

You can either pay for your course in full or opt for a monthly payment plan.

The price for this Advanced level Award is: £1,680*

Speak to one of our course advisors now for payment plans.

 

CIPD membership is not necessary when studying for an Award in Human Resources, although there is a one-off payment of £30 to CIPD.

Workshop* and exam fees are additional to course fees.


* An integral part of your Advanced level Award is your attendance at residential workshops at one of two hotels in a central UK location.

Workshop tuition costs are included in the cost of your course but there are additional fees payable to the hotel for use of hotel services, accommodation, meals, etc.  However ICS has negotiated reduced rates with the hotels on your behalf.