CIPD Level 5 Certification Course - Associate Diploma in People Management
The CIPD Level 5 Associate Diploma in People Management course equips you with comprehensive knowledge of professional behaviors, enabling you to manage relationships, foster talent, guide strategic planning, and reward performance for organizational success.
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English
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CIPD
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About this Course
What to Expect from This CIPD Level 5 Course in People Management
By the end, participants will be able to:
- Understand how organizational strategy, structure, culture and the operating environment connect, and how these shape priorities and drive change.
- Promote diversity, inclusion and ethical practice across people management activities and decisions.
- Apply evidence-based practice by diagnosing challenges and opportunities, using critical thinking, and evaluating options to improve people’s practice.
- Measure and communicate the impact of people practice and the value it contributes to organizational performance.
- Demonstrate strong professional behaviors, including inclusive communication, collaboration, and the ability to build positive working relationships.
- Manage employment relationships effectively, supporting better working lives and understanding employee voice, conflict resolution, and formal workplace procedures (performance, discipline and grievance).
- Understand the role of employment law and representation, and how these shape fair and compliant people management practice.
- Apply workforce planning and talent management principles, including labour market insights, resourcing decisions, succession planning, retention, and onboarding.
- Understand reward strategy and implementation, including benchmarking, data use, total reward packages, and the legal requirements that influence reward decisions.
- Support managers in making fair reward judgements, aligned to performance and contribution.
- Develop leadership and management capability by understanding what effective leadership requires and how leadership development initiatives are designed and evaluated (based on the optional unit selected).
Who Needs this CIPD Level 5 Course in People Management
- CIPD Level 3 graduates aiming for senior HR roles.
- Experienced professionals seeking formal qualifications and strategic HR skills.
- HR professionals targeting HR business partner, leadership, or consultant roles.
- Career changers entering HR, seeking a globally recognized qualification.
There are no exams for CIPD Level 5 in People Management. You complete seven written assignments, with up to three attempts each. Draft feedback is provided, and resubmissions are free, ensuring support and a stress-free experience.
- Number of assessments: 7
- Average completion: 12 months
- Total qualification time: 420 hours
This HR education direction is right if you`re new to HR or L&D, or if you are already operating in HR and need to reinforce your middle HR skills.
If English is not your first language, we recommend:
- IELTS: 5.5 overall, minimum 5.5 in each category
- TOEFL: 71 overall, minimum 17 in each category
- Cambridge: Grade C or above
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CIPD Level 5 Associate Diploma in People Management - Self Study
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Course Inclusions
- Understand links between organisational structure, strategy, and the business environment.
- Recognize organisational priorities, change drivers, and theory application.
- Promote diversity and inclusion.
- Connect people practices to broader organisational strategies.
- Apply methods to identify challenges and opportunities.
- Understand critical thinking and ethical influences on decisions.
- Evaluate benefits and risks of solutions for people's practice issues.
- Measure the impact of people practices on organisations.
- Promote inclusive and collaborative strategies.
- Design and evaluate solutions for effective working relationships.
- Understand the evolving role of a people professional.
- Assess your strengths, weaknesses, and development needs.
- Develop practices to support better working lives.
- Distinguish between employee involvement and participation.
- Understand trends in conflict, mediation, and arbitration.
- Manage performance, disciplinary, and grievance issues.
- Understand employment law and employee representation types.
- Understand labour market trends and their impact on workforce planning.
- Recognize how a changing labour market affects resourcing decisions.
- Support succession and contingency planning.
- Understand turnover, retention, and talent pool development.
- Manage contracts and onboarding effectively.
- Understand reward principles and policy implementation.
- Recognize the impact of individual and organisational performance on reward.
- Use data for benchmarking and measurement.
- Develop reward packages and comply with legislation.
- Support managers in making reward decisions.
- Understand the importance of leadership and management and the required skills and behaviours.
- Recognize L&D initiatives for developing leaders and managers.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of leadership and management development programs.
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