CIPD Level 7
7OS04 Advanced Diversity and Inclusion is one of the most consequential and most rapidly evolving specialist units on the CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma. The unit examines how organisations define diversity and inclusion, the effectiveness of UK equality legislation in producing inclusive workplaces, the practical and moral arguments for inclusive practice, and the strategic roles […]
7OS01 Advanced Employment Law in Practice is one of the most rigorous specialist units on the CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma, sitting within the Organisational Specialism strand alongside 7OS04 Diversity and Inclusion, 7OS05 International HR, and 7OS06 Wellbeing at Work. The unit examines the legal framework for employment regulation in the UK, the law on […]
7CO04 Business Research in People Practice is the fourth and most demanding core unit of the CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma. Unlike the other core units, which are assessed through short essay-style answers, 7CO04 requires you to plan and conduct an original business research project on a people-focused issue and deliver an integrated 4,000-word research […]
7HR01 Strategic Employment Relations Learning Outcome 1: Understand different perspectives on employment relations and how they influence the roles of people professionals and line managers. Q1: Provide an overview of the three main perspectives on employment relations, unitarist, pluralist and radical, explaining which approach is adopted at your organisation, critically evaluating how this influences the […]
7CO03 Personal Effectiveness, Ethics and Business Acumen is the third core unit of the CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma. Unlike 7CO01 and 7CO02, this unit examines the practitioner rather than the practice — the values, behaviours, judgement and self-awareness that distinguish an impactful people professional from a competent technician. The current assessment brief sets four […]
7CO02 People Management and Development Strategies for Performance is the second of the Level 7 Advanced Diploma core units, and it shares an assessment format with 7CO01: seventeen questions are released to centres, four are selected for submission, and each answer must run to approximately 1,000 words. Where 7CO01 looks outward at the changing business […]
CIPD Level 7 — Core Unit Reading time: 22 min The CIPD-set assessment for 7CO01 Work and Working Lives in a Changing Business Environment is one of the most demanding pieces of work on the Advanced Diploma. Centres receive sixteen questions in advance and CIPD selects four for submission, drawn from different learning outcomes. Each […]
7HR03 Strategic Reward Management is the third specialist HR unit on the CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma in Strategic People Management, completing the trio alongside 7HR01 Strategic Employment Relations and 7HR02 Resourcing and Talent Management. The unit examines how organisations design, implement and evaluate reward strategies that attract and retain talent, motivate performance, support equity […]
7HR02 Resourcing and Talent Management to Sustain Success is one of the two specialist HR units on the CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma in Strategic People Management, taken alongside 7HR01 Strategic Employment Relations and 7HR03 Strategic Reward Management. The unit examines how organisations attract, select, plan for and retain the talent they need to deliver […]
7OS06 Wellbeing at Work sits within the Organisational Specialism strand of the CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma, alongside 7OS01 Employment Law, 7OS04 Diversity and Inclusion, and 7OS05 International HR. The unit has become one of the most-studied specialisms on the Level 7 syllabus, reflecting both the post-pandemic surge in workplace mental-health concern and the maturation […]
