CIPD Level 7 Diploma Classroom Choice
Ever fancied yourself as a HR Director or perhaps even a HR consultant? For those aiming high in their HR career, our CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma in HR Management can get you where you need to be.
- Fully recognised CIPD Level 7 HR Management Diploma.
- For professionals already working in a HR role.
- Mixture of face to face and online learning.
- Assignment and exam-based assessments.
- Successful students can upgrade to Chartered Membership.
This course is perfect if you are already in a HR role and wish to progress in your career. You will receive a fully recognised Diploma and Associate Status with this course. Successful students will then be able to upgrade to a Chartered Membership.
Learn your course through a mixture of blended online and face to face learning. Attend 18 full-day workshops and access interactive webinars.
Course Duration
Up to 2 years.
Course Outcome
You will receive your Level 7 Advanced Diploma in HR.
Entry Requirements
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
Assessment
2 national exams and 6 assignments.
You will need to choose 8 of the modules to study:
- Effective approaches to human resource and learning development practice
- Theory and practice of leadership, flexibility and change management
- Learn what makes an effective HR specialist and manager
- Understand how to manage others fairly and increase levels of engagement, commitment, motivation and performance
- Business contexts behind complex and changing organisational and contextual circumstances
- External forces and pressures and how leading organisations respond and shape their own decisions
- External factors affecting an organisation and how value can be added by responding to them
- Professional competence – strong business orientation and how to add value through HR practice
- Investigate live, complex business issues from HR perspective
- Collect and analyse data on issues and make practical recommendations for improvement of current practice that is actionable
- Identify personal strengths and weaknesses as managers and colleagues
- Develop personal skills in:
- Managing budgets
- Thinking and decision making
- Management of financial information
- Team-work and interpersonal skills
- Developing personal effectiveness and credibility
- Current and future developments in employment law
- Key principles of UK and EU employment law
- Dealing with employment tribunal claims
- Major, current and anticipated developments in employment law
- Understand how to anticipate legal problems with proposed decisions or plans
- Managing change in organisations
- Trade Unions and negotiation
- Theories and perspectives on ER
- The employment contract
- Functions of different stakeholders
- Disciplinaries and grievances
- Redundancies
- Other policies and procedures
- Developing strategies for promotion, attraction and promotion with key skills in organisation
- Practical and strategic aspects of recruitment, selection, employee retention and dismissal
- Employment market and demand for certain skillsets
- Skills found from agency workers, subcontractors and consultants or outsourcing arrangements
- Cognitive, affective and behavioural dimensions of engagement
- Meaning of engagement
- Exploration of what organisations are doing well and what can be improved upon
- Caution of evidence about engagement and the processes and benefits
- Measure engagement and develop cultural practices to promote high levels of engagement
- Understanding organisational design process and maximising effectiveness
- Breaking down departmental barriers
- Seeking improved supply efficiencies
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Working towards better customer retention
- Understanding organisational development and techniques
- How organisational members acquire new skills, knowledge and behaviours
- How they do things differently
- How to maximise the performance of an organisation through the strategic design of structure people and skills
- Concepts of all levels of leadership and management in organisational contexts
- Theory of leadership and management
- Complexities of leadership and management
- Contextual opportunities for development
Assessment
There are 2 national exams and 6 assignments to complete for this course.
You will have to sit exams for the for unit 1 (leading, managing and developing people) and unit 2 (human resources management in context).
The exams take place in January, May or September of every year. These take place in either London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol or Glasgow. You will need to be able to travel to at least one of these locations in order to take your exams.
Course duration
You have 2 years to complete your course. Each unit needs to be completed within a specific timeframe:
- Leading managing and developing people – 15 weeks
- Human resources management in context – 15 weeks
- Investigating a business issue from a HR perspective – 24 weeks
- Developing skills for business leadership – 14 weeks
- Employment law – 9 weeks
- Managing employment relations – 9 weeks
- Resourcing and talent management – 9 weeks
- Employee engagement – 9 weeks
- Organisational design and organisation development – 9 weeks
- Leadership and management development – 9 weeks
Study method
This is a blended learning approach with a mixture of both face to face workshops and online study. The course runs at various dates in the year and you will be provided with a timetable indicating when each unit is running.
You will need to attend 18 full day workshops in order to study your course. You will need to be able to travel to one of the following locations: London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol or Glasgow.
You will also be given access to the Virtual Learning Environment with excellent study support. It has access to live interactive webinars during your course. All of which are on demand so you can revisit them as much as you like!
Course outcomes
Upon completion of the course, successful students will receive their Level 7 Advanced Diploma in HR. You will then be able to upgrade to the esteemed CIPD Chartered Membership. You will be invited to the graduation ceremony upon completion of your Level 7 Diploma. Students may also apply for the following job roles:
- Head of HR
- HR Director
- HR Service Manager
- HR Consultant
- Specialist tutor support over email, interactive webinars and forums via virtual learning environment
- Dedicated student support
- Assignment marking and feedback
- FREE CV writing service
- FREE employability guide to help you impress future employers
- Free XO Student Discounts card
You must have already been in a HR role for at least 3 years. As this qualification is advanced and most assessments require you to have high writing skills – it is recommended that you have a degree or equivalent.
You will also need to have access to data within your job role to complete the course.
If you do not meet these requirements take a look at our CIPD Level 3 Diploma or CIPD Level 5 Diploma.
Yes. There are two exams you will need to take in order to receive your diploma. These will need to be booked by the student with CIPD separately. Your exams will take place in the following locations:
London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol or Glasgow.
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