What will I gain from this unit?
Management decisions have a huge impact on the working lives and well-being of people in all sorts of organizations worldwide.
This unit looks at how HR practitioners can make better decisions that support people and the organization, by:
• Using the best available evidence and critical thinking skills
• Gathering and using sources of information that are trustworthy, rather than ‘opinions’ or ‘received
wisdom’
• Adopting an evidence-based approach, by using a range of analytics and evidence with which to inform
actions that achieve the desired impact.
Case study
• Knowledge and understanding of how evidence-based practice informs organizational measures and outcomes
• How creating value benefits employees, customers, and wider stakeholders
• Your People Practice manager wants your help to raise the knowledge and understanding of metrics of the people practice team
• You have been asked to prepare slides with slide notes for the People Practice the team’s next learning and development day
Task 1 – Slide Deck for a Learning and Development Day
• Your manager has asked you to prepare a presentation deck with presenter notes for the HR team to deliver at the next learning and development day
• Presentation aim: provide knowledge and understanding of how evidence-based practice informs organizational measures and outcomes, and how creating value benefits employees, customers, and wider stakeholders
Task 2 – data analysis to inform practice
To help your team improve their knowledge and understanding of using metrics, you have been asked to provide an interpretation of survey data collected from three departments in the organization – Research & Design, Administration, and Marketing.
The research is based on a Likert survey (agreement statements), which has been used to gather feedback about the employees’ perceptions of their ‘quality of work’
