Job quality and strategic implications for HR
7HR01 – Strategic employment relations
This CIPD Level 7 video explores job quality and its strategic implications for HR professionals studying 7HR01 Strategic Employment Relations. The video analyses the changing nature of work across different economic sectors, examining the growth of precarious employment, zero-hours contracts, and the impact of automation on high-skilled manual and routine administrative roles. You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of how to distinguish between high- and low-quality jobs and evaluate their organisational implications, enabling you to meet assessment criteria AC 2.4 and develop strategic HR responses to evolving labour market challenges.
Assessment Criteria 2.4
Analyse the changing nature of work in different parts of the economy.
Indicative Content
The growth of precarious work across the economy; zero-hours contracts; the hollowing out of high-skilled manual labour and routine administrative roles; the role of robots; the notion of high- and low-quality jobs.
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About 7HR01 – Strategic employment relations
This unit focuses on different perspectives of employment relations and the cooperation and conflict that varies between workplaces. There is a key role that institutions beyond the workplace play in shaping people management policy and practice within organisations, and a wide variety of models to emerge, meaning that outcomes are less predictable and relationships must be handled with great care.
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