CIPD Level 5 Associate Diploma in Organisational Learning & Development

Three core units

Unit 1: Organisational performance and culture in practice
You’ll learn about…

• How to develop practices aimed at supporting better working lives.
• How to differentiate between employee involvement and participation.
• Emerging trends in conflict, mediation and arbitration.
• Performance, disciplinary and grievance matters.
• Employment law and the types of employee representation.

Unit 2: Evidence based practice
You’ll learn about…

• The methods re applied to diagnose challenges and opportunities.
• Critical thinking and how different ethical perspectives can influence decisions.
• The benefits and risks of solutions for improving people practice issues.
• How to measure the impact people practice makes to organisations.

Unit 3: Professional behaviours and valuing people
You’ll learn about…

• How to champion inclusive and collaborative strategies.
• How to design and evaluate solutions for positive working relationships.
• How the role of a people professional is evolving.
• How to assess your own strengths, weaknesses and development areas.

Three specialist units

Unit 1: Supporting self-directed and social learning
You’ll learn about…

• The concepts of self-directed and social learning and the theories behind them.
• The steps that organisations take to encourage learning.
• How digital innovations encourage and enable self-directed learning.

Unit 2: Learning and development design to create value
You’ll learn about…

• What needs to be considered when designing learning and development.
• Identifying and establishing learning and development needs.
• Completing a stakeholder analysis in relation to learning and development.
• How to design engaging learning and development solutions.

Unit 3: Facilitate personalised and performance focused learning
You’ll learn about…

• How to develop a range of personalised, accessible learning resources.
• Discussing facilitation techniques to support the needs of learners.
• The facilitation of learning and delivering inclusive activities that meet objectives.
• The concept of ‘transfer of learning’ and the role of line managers.

One of three additional specialist units

Unit 1: Specialist employment law
You’ll learn about…

• The purpose of employment regulation and the way it’s enforced.
• The role played by the tribunal and courts in enforcing employment law.
• How the main principles of discrimination law.
• How to manage recruitment lawfully, and about managing employment rights.

Unit 2: Advances in digital learning and development
You’ll learn about…

• The impact, risks and challenges of technological development.
• Creating engaging digital learning content and the systems for delivering learning.
• The skills required to facilitate online learning, including your development plan.

Unit 3: People Management in an International Context
You’ll learn about…

• People practice from an international perspective.
• The challenges faced in an international context.
• How to analyse the role and function of people practice globally.
• The process and benefits of managing expatriates.