Task - Information sheet

Your manager has asked you to prepare an information sheet about the organisation and its environment to support the onboarding of a new member of the People Team. You decide that to be effective in their role, the new team member needs an appreciation of the organisation’s activities, goals and how the external environment impacts these. As organisational culture and change are essential to achieving business goals and responding to the external environment you decide to add points about these too.

Your information sheet can be based on your own organisation or one(s) with which you are familiar, and must include the following:

1. An examination of three key external influences impacting or likely to impact the organisation’s activities. (AC 1.1)
2. A discussion of at least two of the organisation’s business goals and why it is important for organisations to plan for how they will achieve these. (AC 1.2)
3. A discussion of the organisation’s products and/or services and main customers. (AC 1.3)
4. A short review of information and communication technologies available to people professionals and how these can be, or are, used to improve working practices and collaboration. (AC 1.4)
5. A definition of what is meant by organisational culture and an explanation of why it is important to foster an appropriate and effective workplace culture. (AC 2.1)
6. An explanation of how organisations are whole systems, within which aspects such as structure, systems and culture, are all inter-related, and how people professionals’ work and actions could impact elsewhere in the organisation. (AC 2.2)
7. An explanation of why it is important that organisational change is planned, and effectively managed. (AC 3.1)
8. An explanation of the importance and role that can be played by people professionals within change. You might consider roles such as: gatekeeper, champion, facilitator, critical friend or record-keeper. (AC 3.2)
9. A discussion of how organisational change can impact people in different ways, such as changing their role or status or financial situation. (AC 3.3)

Your evidence must consist of:

An information sheet of approximately 2500 words (refer to CIPD word count policy).

• Please make it clear in your evidence which question and AC you are addressing, for example, Q1 – AC1.1.

Assessment Criteria Evidence Checklist

You may find the following checklist helpful to make sure that you have included the required evidence to meet the task. This is not a mandatory requirement as long as it is clear in your submission where the assessment criteria have been met.

Assessment Criteria marking descriptors.

Assessors will mark in line with the following assessment criteria (AC) marking descriptors, and will indicate where the learner sits within the marking band range for each AC.

Assessors must provide a mark from 1 to 4 for each assessment criteria within the unit. Assessors should use the mark descriptor grid as guidance so they can provide comprehensive feedback that is developmental for learners. Please be aware that not all the mark descriptors will be present in every assessment criterion, so assessors must use their discretion in making grading decisions.

The grid below shows the range for each unit assessment result based on total number of marks awarded across all assessment criteria.

To pass the unit assessment learners must achieve a 2 (Low Pass) or above for each of the assessment criteria.

The overall result achieved will dictate the outcome the learner receives for the unit, provided

NONE of the assessment criteria have been failed or referred.

Please note that learners will receive a Pass or Fail result from the CIPD at unit level. Referral grades can be used internally by the centre. An examination of three key external influences impacting or likely to impact the organisation’s activities. (AC 1.1)

Marking Descriptors