Publications

October 2023

  1. Tool 1: Human resource management in an organization – Fundamentals

    03 October 2023

    Human resource management:A manual for employer and business membership organizations

August 2023

  1. Bureau for Employers' Activities Newsletter - Ninth edition

    04 August 2023

  2. Policy issues in the digital platform economy: A guide for employers’ organizations in Southeast Asia

    02 August 2023

    This report reviews some of the major legal and regulatory challenges related to platform work and examines how employer and business membership organizations (EBMOs) can shape this framework while expanding their organizations to provide more effective policy advocacy and services for the platform economy. It reviews relevant issues and makes suggestions on potential policy options for which EBMOs could advocate as well as membership strategies and institutional considerations that they could adopt in Southeast Asia.

  3. Social protection systems in ASEAN: A strategy guide for employers

    02 August 2023

    ASEAN Member States have taken steps to expand social protection, especially after the adoption of the 2013 ASEAN Declaration on Strengthening Social Protection. The pandemic pushed ASEAN governments to reassess and often reaffirm commitments to establish social protection and expand existing schemes with renewed vigour. Employer and business membership organizations (EBMOs) have a vital role in supporting social protection programmes, especially through funding, and thus should be meaningfully involved in system design and implementation.

July 2023

  1. A conceptual framework for building business resilience

    18 July 2023

    The report encompasses a detailed process of building the business resilience (BRI), beginning from identifying the components of business resilience, outlining the challenges of data acquisition, to the application of various methods to synthesize a composite index. It also acknowledges that the current version of the BRI signifies the capacity for resilience rather than the outcome, making this study an essential building block for future research.

  2. Digitalization to support the transformation of EBMOs as data-driven organizations in the Caribbean

    13 July 2023

    This report examines how EBMOs in the Caribbean currently use digital tools and explores challenges and good practices related to the use of these tools.

  3. Technical Note: Uruguay - Chamber of Digital Economy - CEDU

    11 July 2023

    This technical note is part of the collection of notable experiences in the digitisation of business enterprises and employers' organizations (EBMOs) in Latin America, identified in the research process carried out by the ILO Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP) for the preparation of the 2022 Regional Report "Where are business organizations on the journey towards digitisation, A look at Latin America". These remarkable experiences should inspire other EBMOs in their transition to digitalisation.

  4. Technical Note: Paraguay - Digit@l CAMP

    11 July 2023

    This technical note is part of the collection of notable experiences in the digitisation of business enterprises and employers' organizations (EBMOs) in Latin America, identified in the research process carried out by the ILO Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP) for the preparation of the 2022 Regional Report "Where are business organizations on the journey towards digitisation, A look at Latin America". These remarkable experiences should inspire other EBMOs in their transition to digitalisation.

  5. Technical Note: Panama - Self-diagnosis

    11 July 2023

    This technical note is part of the collection of notable experiences in the digitisation of business enterprises and employers' organizations (EBMOs) in Latin America, identified in the research process carried out by the ILO Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP) for the preparation of the 2022 Regional Report "Where are business organizations on the journey towards digitisation, A look at Latin America". These remarkable experiences should inspire other EBMOs in their transition to digitalisation.

  6. Technical Note: Nicaragua - Sofia - Virtual Assistant

    11 July 2023

    This technical note is part of the collection of notable experiences in the digitisation of business enterprises and employers' organizations (EBMOs) in Latin America, identified in the research process carried out by the ILO Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP) for the preparation of the 2022 Regional Report "Where are business organizations on the journey towards digitisation, A look at Latin America". These remarkable experiences should inspire other EBMOs in their transition to digitalisation.