Employment governance, pay transparency and people operations for directors
A director-level course on running the people function as a governed operation: the mandate to recruit, develop and deploy people to meet the organisation’s needs, fair disciplinary and grievance procedure as a governance floor, equal pay and pay transparency duties, and the handling of employment data. Five modules, each with a worked example, and a 10-question final quiz. Based on cited public pages from the UK Government Functional Standard GovS 003, the Acas Code of Practice, the EU Pay Transparency Directive and the ICO’s employment guidance. Not an accredited HR qualification, not legal advice, and not exam preparation for SHRM-SCP or PHR/SPHR. It does not repeat the Academy’s MBA-level course on people strategy and workforce leadership.
What you will learn
- Explain and apply: State the people director’s mandate as the leadership and management of human resources so that people are recruited, developed and deployed to meet the organisation’s needs.
- Explain and apply: Apply the public minimum of a fair disciplinary and grievance procedure, including investigation, written notice, a hearing, the right to be accompanied, a written decision and an appeal.
- Explain and apply: Explain the main public elements of EU pay-transparency rules on equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, including reporting and information rights, and that they apply only where the Directive has been transposed.
- Explain and apply: Handle employment records and worker data under the public expectations of the ICO’s UK GDPR and DPA 2018 employment guidance.
- Explain and apply: Run a director-level operating cadence so policies are applied consistently, records are kept, and overlapping cases are handled in line with the Acas Code.
modules
- The people director’s mandate
- Fair procedure as a governance floor
- Equal pay and pay transparency
- Employment records and people data
- A director’s operating cadence
Leadership education only. It is not legal, employment, immigration or data-protection advice, not a substitute for local labour law, collective agreements or legal counsel, and not an accredited qualification. Official pages and standards are summarised from public descriptions as read on the access date. UK, EU and other rules apply only in their own jurisdictions and have their own dates and thresholds; check the law that applies to your organisation. Figures and names in worked examples are illustrative.