CIPD Labour Market Report: Changes in the UK Labour Market due to COVID-19 pandemic.

The situation has led to vast changes in the labour market The CIPD Labour Market Report for the current quarter shows that while there is still uncertainty in the jobs market, the figures this quarter show signs that the rate of decline is levelling off. There has been a clear improvement in net employment intentions, which have risen seven percentage points since summer this year.

Nonetheless, intentions to make redundancies remain elevated – with 30% of employers planning to make redundancies in the three months to December 2020. However, it is encouraging to note that employers are using a wide range of tactics to stave off redundancies where possible. These include temporary lay-offs or furloughing staff (41%), redeployment (37%), recruitment freezes (32%), freezing or delaying wage increases (29%), cutting bonuses (29%) and terminating temporary worker or agency worker contracts (27%).

With the furlough scheme now being extended from November, employers will have further Government support to help save jobs and potentially protect employees from redundancy but will have to continue their work on changing business models, battling with business continuity and establishing Covid Safe working environments while also considering the impacts of Brexit. These and other drivers may be affecting the organisation you choose to study.

More Detailed Guidance for Both Parts

• Your choice of organisation for investigation, and some possible Managing the People Issues you will consider.
• The driver/s of change that you consider have affected your chosen organisation.
• A short outline of how you will address the brief and learning outcomes (e.g. how you will access the information you will be basing your work on.) Submit this piece of work to the Submission Box in the Assignments section of Canvas. Part 1 is not marked. You will be given formative feedback to help you achieve success in your final submission and to guide you in line with the module aims. (The assessment for this module assesses all learning outcomes)

Guidance on Final Report and Submission

The report, excluding appendices etc., should be not more than 3000 words in length. (As a guide.) The submission date for the final assessment will be Wednesday the 27th of January 2021.

For your guidance, it will consist of:

1. a) An introduction in which you introduce the organisation that you are investigating, with a description of its activities, operations and the business environment in which it operates.
2. b) A brief description of the research approach you are taking for your investigation.
3. c) A section on your findings including a critical evaluation, of the organisational development and change approaches used by the organisation.
4. d) Conclusions and commercially viable recommendations for improvement of the organisational development and change approaches used by the organisation.
5. e) Throughout the report, you should integrate theory with practice, critically evaluating your findings and recommendations.
6. f) All sources must be cited correctly in accordance with the Harvard system of referencing. This assignment is intended to give you an opportunity to show that you are capable of applying your knowledge of organisational development and change, not only in describing the issues faced by the organisation, but also in explaining them and justifying your proposed actions to improve them.

The assessment of this assignment will cover all the following learning outcomes:

K1 The historical and theoretical basis of organisation design and development and their context in terms of value and contribution to organisational life

K2 Available design options regarding organisational structures and relationships

K3 Processes and systems that need to be in place to maintain such structures and relationships, and evaluation of same

K4 Methods and procedures of organisation development and review their strategic impact

S1 Critically evaluate the OD processes and models to implement successful change and organisational design

S2 Review and critique the OD process options to improve organisational design

S3 Critically reflect and evaluate learning processes when deciding OD processes for change