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In the CIPD exam you have three hours to complete the paper. Section A is a case study and in Section B you are required to answer five questions. The two sections are equally weighted – so you have roughly 1.5 hours to answer Section B. There are five questions on this paper, so aim to complete it in 1.5 hours. There is no word limit.
The following questions have all been taken from past CIPD exam papers for this module:
- You have been informed by your Chief Executive Officer (CEO) that the Coalition Government has announced a planned increase in fuel duty of one per cent plus inflation per litre next April. There is also potentially an additional 3p per litre in the offing from rising oil prices. This is likely to see pump prices rise by up to 5p per litre during this period. The CEO has asked you to undertake the following:
- The CEO wants you to analyse the likely effects of this rise in oil prices on your organisation and its employees.
- Suggest some ways in which your organisation can respond to this challenge.
- In an age of globalisation and intense competition in product and other markets, organisations have to respond to the external contexts in which they operate quickly and decisively.Identify up to three major trends in the external contexts impacting on your organisation and explain, with examples, how and why they act as key drivers in determining your organisation’s HR strategy.
- Organisation theory draws upon a range of academic and practical disciplines such as social sciences, economics, politics, philosophy, management and ethics. This results in a number of approaches to the study of organisations.
- Drawing upon research, outline the modernist (or orthodox) approach to organisation theory.
- Drawing upon research, outline the symbolic perspective of organisation theory
- Summarise the relevance of both these approaches to organisation for the study and practice of management.
- In conditions of market uncertainty, competition, and rapid changes in the external contexts of organisations, organisational leaders in the private, public and third sectors are using systems and techniques of strategic management.
- Drawing upon research, critically evaluate one model of corporate strategy.
- Examine its relevance to your organisation
- Best fit models of HR strategy have been described as outside-in theories of HR and are based on the proposition that different types of HR corporate strategy are suitable for different types of business conditions and organisational contexts. Drawing upon research, specify one best fit model and critically evaluate it.
Solution/Answer:
Employees with long years of experience in the workforce encounter bigger wage reductions following oil price increases. … Oil price changes can have a negative impact on the economy and can result in high unemployment rates, lower growth, high interest rates, and a slower economy…………………….Please contact us to receive guidance and support on this assessment in full
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