Section One – Report For section one, you are to produce a CIPD – 5CO02: Report that provides the Senior Management team with knowledge and understanding of what evidence-based practice is and the approaches that can be taken for effective critical thinking and decision-making that ensures integrity and value is upheld.

You must ensure that you:

• Evaluate the concept of evidence-based practice and assess how approaches to evidence-based practice can be used to provide insight that supports sound decision-making across a range of people practices and organisational issues.
• Evaluate one appropriate analysis tool and one appropriate analysis method that might be applied by organisations to recognise and diagnose issues, challenges, and opportunities.
• Explain the main principles of critical thinking and describe how these might apply to your own and others’ ideas to assist objective and rational debate.
• Explain three decision-making processes that can be applied to ensure that effective outcomes are achieved.
• Assess three different ethical perspectives and explain how understanding of these can be used to inform and influence moral decision-making.
• Appraise two different ways organisations measure financial and non-financial performance, providing one example of each.
• Explain how people practices add value in an organisation and identify two methods that might be used to measure the impact of people practices in your CIPD – 5CO02: Report.