Bad barrels and sticky situations review unethical workplace behaviour

5CO03
Professional Behaviours and Valuing People
This unit focuses on how applying core professional behaviours such as ethical practice, courage and inclusivity can build positive working relationships and support employee voice and well-being. It considers how developing and mastering new professional behaviours and practice can impact performance.

CIPD’s insight
Rotten apples, bad barrels and sticky situations: unethical workplace behaviour (April 2019)

However, to reap the benefits of a diverse workforce it’s vital to have an inclusive environment where everyone feels able to participate and achieve their potential. While UK legislation - covering age, disability, race, religion, gender and sexual orientation among others - sets minimum standards, an effective diversity and inclusion strategy goes beyond legal compliance and seeks to add value to an organisation, contributing to employee well-being and
engagement.

https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/fundamentals/relations/diversity/factsheet

Preparation for the Tasks:
 Refer to the indicative content in the unit to guide and support your evidence.

 Pay attention to how your evidence is presented, remember you are working in the People Practice Team.

 Use the bullet points below each task as headings and sub-headings so your marker can see where your answer begins.

Task One – Conference Presentation on Ethical Practice in Business
Your manager has asked you to prepare a presentation in readiness for delivery to colleagues on the importance of ethical practice and the business case for such people practices. Your Presentation Pack must include presentation slides, the evidence you have gathered, and presenter notes. It is expected that your presentation pack is aimed at the appropriate audience and is of business format.

- How you can effectively communicate to engage and influence others.

- How you might raise issues with situations such as organisational policies or the approach to leadership that conflict with legislation or ethical values. (1.3, 1.5)

As an introduction to your portfolio it is important to set the scene to your personal learning journey.

Activity 1 – The Context of Professional Development (3.1) Explain the following;
 How the role of a people professional is changing?

 From this Self-assessment, plus other forms of feedback identify your strengths and weaknesses setting personal development objectives to be included within a Professional Development Plan (3.2).

 You now need to consider how you can meet these development objectives, to complete your PDP. Consider the range of learning opportunities available to you and for each development objectives decide on the most appropriate initiative to support your learning journey. We would encourage you to submit this assessment criteria as a draft so you ensure you are on the right track with your objectives (3.3).

Activity 4 – Assessing the Impact of your Learning and CPD.

The final part of our CPD is to measure the overall impact of our learning. To achieve this, you need to think about and capture the impacts, covering positive as well as negative. What was the impact on you, your team, your colleagues, your customers, your stakeholders, the organisation or your department? To support this assessment, you will need to complete a record of your learning for the last 12 months. (3.4).