5CO03 - Task One – Professional, Ethical, and Inclusive Behaviours

Task One –Professional, ethical, and inclusive behaviours.

In this this task, you are required to demonstrate a professional level of knowledge and understanding in relation to ‘professional, ethical and inclusive behaviours’.

To complete the task, you should provide a written response to each of the points below, making appropriate use of academic theory and practical examples to expand your response and illustrate key points.

To help the reader, please make use of headings and assessment criteria references to signpost the assessment criteria being addressed.

• Define the term professional and explain what it means to be a ‘people professional’. (AC 1)
• Explore how the role of a people professional (either a generalist or a particular specialist) is evolving and the priorities this raises for continuing professional development (CPD) (AC 1)
• Discuss the concept of ‘ethical values’, and how at least three ethical values that you hold personally, impact (or could impact) on your work as a people (AC 1.2)
• Explain why it is essential for people professionals to contribute confidently to discussions, and ways of doing this that are (AC 1.3):
  • informed
  • clear
• Discuss when and how to raise concerns when issues such as organisational policies or leadership approaches conflict with ethical values or (AC 1.4)
• Provide a robust argument for ethical people practice that is supported by academic theory and details both the business and human benefits of people at work feeling included, valued and fairly (AC 2.1)
• Drawing on your own or a hypothetical example of providing a people practice solution to meet a particular need or introducing a new policy or initiative, describe:
  • strategies for designing the solution/initiative so that it will be inclusive
  • strategies for checking that, when in practice, the solution/initiative engages and meets the needs of all those it is aimed (AC 2.2)

TASK ONE

Your evidence must consist of:

• Written responses to each of the 7 instructions above.

2100 words (+/-10%) – refer to the word count guidance for details.