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CIPD Level 77HR01

CIPD 7HR01 Videos – Strategic employment relations

36 learning videos across 3 learning outcomes, one for each assessment criteria in 7HR01.

This unit focuses on different perspectives of employment relations and the cooperation and conflict that varies between workplaces. There is a key role that institutions beyond the workplace play in shaping people management policy and practice within organisations, and a wide variety of models to emerge, meaning that outcomes are less predictable and relationships must be handled with great care.

Learning Outcome 1

Power, Authority, Managerial Prerogative and Professional Practice

AC 1.1Critically evaluate different perspectives on employment relations

Introduction and the Unitarist Perspective

AC 1.1Critically evaluate different perspectives on employment relations

Pluralist and Radical Perspectives

AC 1.1Critically evaluate different perspectives on employment relations

The Contested Nature of Work - Why Conflict is Inherent

AC 1.2Contrast examples of cooperation and conflict within the employment relationship in different organisational contexts.

Manifestations of Conflict - Overt, Covert, and Everything Between

AC 1.2Contrast examples of cooperation and conflict within the employment relationship in different organisational contexts.

Cooperation, Context, and the Dynamic Balance

AC 1.2Contrast examples of cooperation and conflict within the employment relationship in different organisational contexts.

Non-union strategies and evaluating fitness for purpose

AC 1.3Critically evaluate employer strategies towards trade unions and whether they are fit for purpose.

Partnership and adversarial approaches to union relations

AC 1.3Critically evaluate employer strategies towards trade unions and whether they are fit for purpose.

Introduction to employer strategies and the strategic context

AC 1.3Critically evaluate employer strategies towards trade unions and whether they are fit for purpose.

The meaning of good employment relations and why they matter

AC 1.4Review ways in which people professionals can foster positive employment relations at work

Working with line managers and employees to build positive relations

AC 1.4Review ways in which people professionals can foster positive employment relations at work

Challenges to positive employment relations and strategic responses

AC 1.4Review ways in which people professionals can foster positive employment relations at work

Learning Outcome 2

The Role of the State in Regulating Employment Relations

AC 2.1Critically evaluate the extent to which globalisation and other international influences have shaped and transformed employment relations within organisations.

International Institutions and Global Employment Relations

AC 2.1Critically evaluate the extent to which globalisation and other international influences have shaped and transformed employment relations within organisations.

Understanding Globalisation and Its Impact on Employment Relations

AC 2.1Critically evaluate the extent to which globalisation and other international influences have shaped and transformed employment relations within organisations.

Technological change and its impact on employment relations

AC 2.2Review the practice of employment relations at organisation level, including how it is being shaped by short-term competitive pressures.

Labour market and product market pressures

AC 2.2Review the practice of employment relations at organisation level, including how it is being shaped by short-term competitive pressures.

Political developments and strategic responses to competitive pressures

AC 2.2Review the practice of employment relations at organisation level, including how it is being shaped by short-term competitive pressures.

Introduction to External Advisory Bodies and ACAS

AC 2.3Critically appraise the advice that external bodies can provide in order to help people professionals make appropriate decisions for their organisation.

Employer Representative Bodies and Trade Unions

AC 2.3Critically appraise the advice that external bodies can provide in order to help people professionals make appropriate decisions for their organisation.

Integrating External Advice into Strategic Decision-Making

AC 2.3Critically appraise the advice that external bodies can provide in order to help people professionals make appropriate decisions for their organisation.

Precarious work and zero-hours contracts

AC 2.4Analyse the changing nature of work in different parts of the economy.

Job quality and strategic implications for HR

AC 2.4Analyse the changing nature of work in different parts of the economy.

Labour market polarisation and the role of automation

AC 2.4Analyse the changing nature of work in different parts of the economy.

Learning Outcome 3

Introduction to Indirect Voice and Works Councils

AC 3.1Critically analyse how different forms of indirect voice could contribute to improved levels of organisational performance and employee outcomes.

Partnership Agreements and Conditions for Effective Indirect Voice

AC 3.1Critically analyse how different forms of indirect voice could contribute to improved levels of organisational performance and employee outcomes.

Joint Consultative Committees - Theory and Practice

AC 3.1Critically analyse how different forms of indirect voice could contribute to improved levels of organisational performance and employee outcomes.

How Voice Mechanisms Drive Organisational Performance

AC 3.2Critically analyse how different forms of informal and direct voice could contribute to improved levels of organisational performance and employee outcomes.

Understanding Direct and Informal Voice Mechanisms

AC 3.2Critically analyse how different forms of informal and direct voice could contribute to improved levels of organisational performance and employee outcomes.

Employee Outcomes and Critical Success Factors for Voice

AC 3.2Critically analyse how different forms of informal and direct voice could contribute to improved levels of organisational performance and employee outcomes.

Employee outcomes and evaluating voice effectiveness

AC 3.3Evaluate the extent to which voice enhances both organisational performance and employee outcomes

Theoretical foundations and conditions for effective voice

AC 3.3Evaluate the extent to which voice enhances both organisational performance and employee outcomes

Measuring organisational performance impacts

AC 3.3Evaluate the extent to which voice enhances both organisational performance and employee outcomes

Understanding Employee Engagement - Definitions and Drivers

AC 3.4Evaluate how organisations drive and assess employee engagement.

Engagement Strategies, Performance Links, and Barriers

AC 3.4Evaluate how organisations drive and assess employee engagement.

Measuring and Assessing Employee Engagement

AC 3.4Evaluate how organisations drive and assess employee engagement.

View the full 7HR01 unit guide