Unit Code & Title : 5CO02 Evidence Based Practice
Assessment Type : Assignment
This unit assignment addresses the significance of capturing robust quantitative and qualitative evidence to inform meaningful insight to influence critical thinking. It focuses on analysing evidence through an ethical lens to improve decision-making and how measuring the impact of people practice is essential in creating value.
5CO02 Evidence Based Practice Assignment – UK.
CIPD’s insight :
Evidence-based practice is about making better decisions, informing action that has the desired impact. An evidence-based approach to decision-making is based on a combination of using critical thinking and the best available evidence. It makes decision makers less reliant on anecdotes, received wisdom and
personal experience – sources that are not trustworthy on their own.
It is important for People Practitioners to adopt this approach because of the huge impact management decisions have on the working lives of people in all sorts of organisations worldwide. Managers have an
obligation to find the best evidence when making important decisions to strengthen the well-being of their workers as well as ensuring their organisation’s success.
Case study :
The company director has requested that your HR department provides a report to senior management at their forthcoming annual meeting to show how evidence-based practice approaches can be used to inform sound decision-making on people practices and business-related matters.Your departmental manager has asked you to provide this report.
In addition, for the second part of the report, you have been asked to provide them with examples that demonstrate how people practitioners gain understanding and insight through interpretation of data.
Preparation for the Tasks :
1.You are encouraged to start with the reading, listening and watching required for this unit before moving on to plan your content with your tutor and agree staged deadlines so that they can help you manage your progress.
2. Refer to the indicative content in the unit to guide and support your evidence.
3. Pay attention to how your evidence is presented, remember you are the sole instigator for
this task and your recommendations are being presented to key stakeholders and final decision-makers
4. Make sure that all work generated for this assignment remains your own.
5. If you work with others on a Task you must clearly detail your personal contribution so that you can be fairly assessed for your part.
You will also benefit from:
1.Acting on formative feedback from your Assessor.
2. Reflecting on your own experiences of learning opportunities and training and development
processes.
3. Reviewing examples of business proposals, the principles of their format and content.
4. Reading the CIPD Fact Sheets and related on-line material on these topics.
Report: Part one
You are required to prepare a report to senior managers at their forthcoming annual meeting.The report needs to:
5CO02 Evidence Based Practice Assignment – UK.
1.Provide evaluation of the concept of evidence-based practice and assess how evidence-based practice approaches can be used to provide insight to support sound decision-making and judgments for people practitioners across a range of people practices and organisational issues. (1.1)
2.Provide evaluation of one appropriate analysis tool and one method that might be applied by
organisations to recognise and diagnose current and future issues, challenges, and opportunities. (1.2)
3.Explain the main principles of critical thinking and describe how these might apply to individual and work colleagues’ ideas to assist objective and rational debate. (1.3)
4.Assess a range of different ethical theories and perspectives and explain how understanding of these can be used to inform and influence moral decision-making. (1.4)
5.Explain a range of approaches that could be taken by people practitioners to identify possible solutions to a specific issue relating to people practice. (2.3)
6.Explain a range of approaches that could be taken by people practitioners to identify possible solutions to a specific issue relating to people practice. (2.3)
7.Explain how a variety of people practices add value in an organisation and identify a range of methods that might be used to measure the impact of a range of people practices (3.4)
Report Part two: Data analysis and review
Section two of the report needs to showcase to senior managers how people professionals use and analyse data on people practices.
1.Below is the data of labour turnover across three departments over a five-year period.
The costs for recruiting an employee up until 2018 was £2065 however this rose to £3012 from this date
on wards.
1. Present the costings for each year across each of the three departments.
2.Represent the turnover per year as a percentage of the total number of employees in each department.
2.Presented below are two sets of data that has been collected from two departments during exit interviews.Table 1 shows the feedback that has been elicited from employees in production and table 2 is from payroll.
A.Review and analyse the two data sets below.
Table 1.
Table 2.
I.From the analysis present your findings using appropriate methods to highlight themes and trends that appear to be occurring. (2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 3.3)
5CO02 Evidence Based Practice Assignment – UK.
II.Make at least three recommendations to reduce employee turnover based on your analysis.Provide a rationale for your recommendations based on an evaluation of the benefits, risks and financial implications of potential solutions.
It is essential that you relate to academic concepts, theories and professional practice for the tasks to ensure that your work is supported by analysis. Please ensure that any references and sources drawn upon are acknowledged correctly and supported by a bibliography.
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