AC 1.3 Self-evaluate personal integrity and professional courage in relation to ethical practice.

Introduction

Your knowledge and understanding of the material covered in this core unit will be assessed by how you address four of the assessment criteria listed below. Your assessor will let you know which assessment criteria you are to address. You are expected to complete all the learning for the unit, irrespective of which assessment criteria are selected for summative assessment.

The four assessment criteria will be drawn from different learning outcomes, featuring one assessment criteria in each learning outcome. These criteria encompass a wide range of generalist HR, OD & L&D subject areas. 

You will write four responses of approximately 1000 words to each of the assessment criteria and submit them together in a single document. This constitutes your assessment for this unit. The total word count for the assessment will therefore be 4000 words, plus or minus 10%. Your bibliography or list of references is not included in the total word count.

You must demonstrate within the submitted evidence (through headings and sub-headings) which learning outcomes and assessment criteria you have addressed. We are unable to moderate your work if this is not included.

As this is an Advanced Level Diploma, it is important that you are able to demonstrate not only good knowledge and understanding of the material associated with each learning outcome, but also the ability to develop an original argument and justify it persuasively with reference to wider reading. Examples of approaches taken in a range of organisations are also an effective means by which to justify your arguments.

The six main criteria that CIPD requires centres to use when marking your assessment are outlined below, but it may be that not all these criteria are present for each assessment criteria.

(1) focus

(2) depth and breadth of understanding

(3) strategic application and professional advice

(4) research and wider reading

(5) persuasiveness and originality

(6) presentation and language

Assessment Task

From your experience, describe and evaluate real-life scenarios where you have demonstrated that you have acquired the behaviour, skill or knowledge in each of the selected assessment criteria below. Inform your answer with wider reading to critically analyse your performance.

You may identify a different scenario for each assessment criteria or use a scenario to demonstrate up to any two assessment criteria. You could consider adopting the STAR approach when structuring your answer. If this approach is adopted the follow areas should be covered:

• Situation
• Task
• Action
• Result

The majority of words are likely to be allocated to the ‘action’ and ‘result’ parts of your answer.

Moderation questions

AC 1.3

Self-evaluate personal integrity and professional courage in relation to ethical practice.

AC 2.3

Demonstrate impactful behaviour that is aligned with wider organisational vision, values, strategies and plans.

AC 3.3

Network to enhance own career and contribution to organisational effectiveness.

AC 4.3

Promote organisational improvement through courage, political acumen and the willingness to challenge.

Word count: 1000 words for each AC

Guidance

AC 1.3

Self-evaluate personal integrity and professional courage in relation to ethical practice

• Briefly define and explain personal integrity and professional courage in relation to ethical practice using wider reading. The CIPD profession map may also help. You could also discuss the difficulty of balancing stakeholder needs of the business/ management against those of employees.
• Rate yourself on how likely you are to speak up if there is an ethical dilemma in your organisation.
• Choose a strategic ethical issue such as restructure, redundancy, managing change, performance management etc where the rights of the employee or ethical perspectives must be taken into consideration. You may wish to bring in an aspect of ethical perspectives to illustrate your points and add to your references for this answer. How did you use it in practice?
• Provide a reflection in terms of what went well, what didn’t go so well or what have you learned about how to present an alternative point of view that you would do differently in the future.
• Provide an action point.

AC 2.3

Demonstrate impactful behaviour that is aligned with wider organisational vision, values, strategies and plans.

• Explain what having an impact or adding value is to an organisation with use of wider reading.
• Rate yourself o whether you are good at demonstrating impact with the work that you do as a HR professional or not. Give an example to illustrate your starting rating.
• Provide a scenario/ example of something you have done that has had an impact. It must be strategic not operational.
• Again provide a true reflection of this
• Re rate yourself and provide an action point for the future.

AC 3.3

Network to enhance own career and contribution to organisational effectiveness.

• Briefly -What is networking, what types of networking are there that are relevant to you? HR conferences, LinkdIn, What’s App, cross company meetings, project teams etc. try and choose a network that includes HR professionals outside your own organisation.
• Briefly -What are the benefits of networking outside of your department/ company?
• Briefly -What is your current competence in networking?  Are you a confident networker or do you not have a large network outside your company.

• Situation- what situation did you have to deal with? Example- you find out that well-being is not as effective as it could be in your organisation from some research

• Task- What task were you given to complete or find out? Example- you want to find out what other organisations are doing to improve their well-being to see if they would be suitable
  
• Action- The action that you took to find out the information? You used your cross company meeting to discuss the issue of well-being.

Sample Answer