Evidence-based practice

ACNumber
1.1
Assessment Criteria
Mark
1-4
Evaluate the concept of evidence-based practice including how it
can be applied to decision-making in people practice.
Fai, there is an insufficient demonstration of knowledge,
understanding or skills (as appropriate) required to meet the AC.
Insufficient examples included, where required, to support
answers.
Presentation and structure of assignment is not appropriate and
does not meet the assessment brief.
There is use of secondary sources which have not been cited
within your discussion and must be included.
For your resubmission, keep the existing narrative on the
definition of evidence based practice. Strike through the
remaining discussion. We need to see the following included
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▪Evaluate EBP overall – how useful is it? What are the
weaknesses/limitations?
▪Identify 2 people practice issues, within your organisation –
explain how EBP can support sound decision making and
judgements for these issues.
People Practice examples: (we do not need an explanation of
what these are)
Resourcing
Reward L&D
Performance
A different area of the Employee Lifecycle
For example, when you are hiring what sort of evidence do
you use to help you make decisions about the best
candidate?
▪Identify 1 organisational issue within your organisation –
explain how EBP can support sound decision making and
judgements for these issues
Organisational issues examples: (we do not need an
explanation of what these are)
Raising level of employee engagement
Increasing productivity
Raising levels of customer satisfaction Themes associated
with change
For example, when trying to raise employee engagement
what evidence do you need to review?
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1.2
Evaluate a range of analysis tools and methods including how
they can be applied to diagnose organisational issues, challenges
and opportunities.
Fai, there is an insufficient demonstration of knowledge,
understanding or skills (as appropriate) required to meet the AC.
Insufficient examples included, where required, to support
answers.
1
Presentation and structure of assignment is not appropriate and
does not meet the assessment brief.
For your resubmission, keep the existing narrative and do not
delete anything. We also need to see the following included –
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You MUST evaluate each tool – what is good about it?
What is not so good? What are the
weaknesses/strengths?
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You must explain how each tool and method can help a
people professional diagnose issues, challenges and
opportunities.
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1.3
Explain the principles of critical thinking including how you apply
these to your own and others’ ideas.
Fai, there is an insufficient demonstration of knowledge,
understanding or skills (as appropriate) required to meet the AC.
Insufficient examples included, where required, to support
answers.
Presentation and structure of assignment is not appropriate and
does not meet the assessment brief.
Your discussion is generic and does not address key aspects
required of the AC.
For your resubmission,strike through the existing narrative We also need to see the following included –
▪Explain the main principles of critical thinking.
▪Briefly explain why it is important for the People
Professional to develop this skill andmindset [You may want
to refer to the CIPD Profession Map]
▪Explain how you have, or could, apply critical thinking to
develop your own individual ideas.(Give a specific
example/story of when you have done this)
▪Explain how you have, or could, use critical thinking when
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considering others’ ideas (Give a specific example/story of
when you have done this)
▪Briefly explain how the critical thinking approach assists
rational and objective debate(basing thought on available
evidence)
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1.4
Explain a range of decision-making processes.
Fai, there is an insufficient demonstration of knowledge,
understanding or skills (as appropriate) required to meet the AC.
Insufficient examples included, where required, to support
answers.
1
Presentation and structure of assignment is not appropriate and
does not meet the assessment brief.
Your discussion does not address key aspects required of the AC.
For your resubmission,strike through the existing narrative We also need to see the following included –
▪Explain 3 decision-making processes used by the people
professional
•
Explain how they ensure that effective outcomes are achieved.
You should choose 3 from these examples: Future
pacing/decision matrix/force field analysis/ brainstorming/the
reframing matrix/ constructive controversy/ empathy mapping/ De
Bono’s 6 Thinking Hats.
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1.5
Assess how different ethical perspectives can influence decisionmaking.
Fai, there is an insufficient demonstration of knowledge,
understanding or skills (as appropriate) required to meet the AC.
Insufficient examples included, where required, to support
answers.
Presentation and structure of assignment is not appropriate and
does not meet the assessment brief.
Your discussion does not address key aspects required of the AC.
For your resubmission, keep the existing narrative – We also
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need to see the following included –
▪ You MUST assess how understanding each of these ethical
theories can be used to inform and influence moral decision
making – how are they applied? How well do they do this?
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3.1
Appraise different ways organisations measure financial and nonfinancial performance.
Fai, there is an insufficient demonstration of knowledge,
understanding or skills (as appropriate) required to meet the AC.
Insufficient examples included, where required, to support
answers.
1
Presentation and structure of assignment is not appropriate and
does not meet the assessment brief.
You need to be mindful of the wordcount and limit your discussion
to one financial and one non-financial performance measure. We
also need to see you appraise the method, which is currently
missing from your discussion.
For your resubmission, keep the existing narrative and limit it
to one financial and one non- financial performance measure
– strike through the other twol – We also need to see the
following included –
▪ You must appraise each method of financial and nonfinancial performance measure – what are its difficulties,
advantages, limitations. When would a people professional
use it?
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Section 2
AC
Number
2.1
Assessment Criteria
Mark
1-4
With reference to a people practice issue, interpret analytical data
using appropriate analysis tools and methods.
Fai, there is an insufficient demonstration of knowledge,
understanding or skills (as appropriate) required to meet the AC.
Insufficient examples included, where required, to support
answers.
1
Presentation and structure of assignment is not appropriate and
does not meet the assessment brief.
For your resubmission, please embed the link to the
spreadsheet so your calculations can be seen on the excel
sheet.
2.2
Present key findings for stakeholders from people practice
activities and initiatives.
Fai, there is an insufficient demonstration of knowledge,
understanding or skills (as appropriate) required to meet the AC.
Insufficient examples included, where required, to support
answers.
1
Presentation and structure of assignment is not appropriate and
does not meet the assessment brief.
For your resubmission, we also need to see the diagrammatic
format and discussion on the hybrid working practices
survey in table 2.
TABLE 2 Hyrbid working practices survey
▪ Provide 1 graph that represents your findings from the data
in Table 2
Remember you are presenting your findings to stakeholders
so you MUST ensure your graphs are clearly labelled (axis
and headings) and the data is clear and accurate.
▪ Add a brief narrative underneath to explain what your graph
shows
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2.3
Make justified recommendations based on evaluation of the
benefits, risks and financial implications of potential solutions.
Fai, there is an insufficient demonstration of knowledge,
understanding or skills (as appropriate) required to meet the AC.
Insufficient examples included, where required, to support
answers.
Presentation and structure of assignment is not appropriate and
does not meet the assessment brief.
Your recommendations should be entirely your own and not
reliant on secondary sources.
For your resubmission, keep the existing narrative, however
strike through the secondary sources used.
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We need to see the recommendations separately for table 1 –
on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Salary Data and
separately for table 2- Hybrid Working Practices Survey.
For both sets of recommendations, we need to see the
benefits, risks and costs (financial implications).
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