ENTERPRISE

AND ITS
PROGRAM &
POLICIES
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
At the end of this module, the students
should be able to:
1. Define what is enterprise program
and policy;
2. Differentiate between enterprise,
entrepreneur and
entrepreneurship;
3. Identify stages, scale, and forms of
enterprise development; and
4. Describe the relationship between
the entrepreneurship and
enterprise development.
DEFINITION
Programs
• These are short-term
interventions that create
temporary improvements in
the wake of challenges.

Policies
• These are covenants we
collectively choose to live by,
as articulated in legislation
and regulation. They inform
our socially accepted mores
and ethics.
ENTERPRISE,
ENTREPRENEUR &
ENTREPRENEURSHIP

An Enterprise is a business organization that is

Entrepreneurship is the
formed and which provides goods and
creation or extraction of
services, creates jobs, contributes to national Entrepreneur is nothing
value. It is viewed as
income, imports, exports, and above all, else than the person
change which may include
sustainable economic development. In a more starts an enterprise.
other values than simply
concise or synthetic way, is a business
economic ones.
venture.
ENTERPRISE,
ENTREPRENEUR &
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
To solve a To exploit
problem an idea
Entrepreneurs organize
resources and take risks
in the expectation of
earning a profit.
To lower
To fill a gap
the cost
STAGES OF Pre-venture
ENTERPRISE stage
DEVELOPMENT
Startup stage
Growth stage
Maturity
stage

Revitalization stage
SCALE OF ENTERPRISE
• It is a small business that sells goods and/or services to
Microenterprise a local area or a local market.

Small Scale Industries Small scale • Those industries in which manufacturing, providing
industries (SSI) services, productions are done on a small scale or micro
scale.
• It is a business can range from a single proprietor
Large Scale Industries enterprise to a large corporation that employs
thousands of workers across multiple countries.

Public Enterprises and their Structures • These are government-controlled that are doing left
Around the world business activities to individuals and private
organizations while keeping essential services.
Multinational Companies or Corporations • These are corporate organizations that operate in more
(MNC) Multinational Corporations or than one country other than their home country.
Multinational Companies
 Limited General Sole
Corporation
partnership partnership proprietorship

Non-profit Group of
Joint venture Association
legal person persons

FORMS OF ENTERPRISE Cooperative

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND
ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
“Sustainable enterprises should innovate, adopt
appropriate environmentally friendly technologies,
develop skills and human resources, and enhance
productivity to remain competitive in national and
international markets.’’
ILO-Labour Conference 2007
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND
ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
Small Enterprise Development Program
works to strengthen entrepreneurial
management skills through capacity
building and training resources that foster
adoption of good workplace practices in micro-
, small and large enterprises. In the area of
management training, ILO has training tools
that cover the whole spectrum of target
groups, from illiterate micro entrepreneurs to
growth oriented small and medium scale
entrepreneurs.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND
ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
At the entrepreneurship development level, a key role of the program is to
develop tools and programs that deal with the long-term effects of entrepreneurial
culture. In this regard, ILO has developed Know About Business (KAB), a practical
tool that addresses the challenge of youth unemployment highlighted in the
Millennium Development Goals. Its general objective is to contribute towards the
creation of an enterprise culture in a country or society, as stipulated by the ILO
recommendation 189, by promoting awareness among young people of the
opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurship and self-employment, and of their
role in shaping their future and that of their country’s economic and social
development. ILO seeks to promote an enterprise culture within which cooperative
and private enterprises strive for better livelihoods for workers and employers, and
for higher productivity and sustained competitiveness of enterprises, while
respecting the rule of law and workers’ rights.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND
ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
The Start and Improve Your Business
(SIYB) program is a management-training
program with a focus on starting and
improving small businesses as a strategy for
creating more and better employment in
developing economies and economies in
transition. The long-term overall SIYB
objective is to contribute to economic growth
in general, and to the creation of more and
better jobs in micro- and small enterprises
(MSEs) in particular.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND
ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
The Expand Your Business (EYB) is an
integrated business training and support
package for small- to medium-scale
enterprises which have growth objectives in
mind. These small and medium enterprises with
growth potential are called Growth-Oriented
Enterprises (GOEs). The EYB program is
“integrated” because it provides a number of
interventions which are important to the growth
and expansion of businesses. These include
both training and non-training interventions.
DISCUSSION
Kindly answer the following questions:
1. What is the aim of the International
Labor Organization for our young
people today?
2. In your opinion, what is your role as
a potential entrepreneur?
3. Can you project yourself in the next
five year as an entrepreneur?
4. What is your future business?
Please explain briefly.
ACTIVITY #2
Write a brief essay responding to
the following query about the
International Labor Organization's
calling:
1. As a prospective entrepreneur,
what is your role—as a
manufacturer, service provider,
social entrepreneur, retailer,
etc.?
2. Post your answer at LMS.
3. Please prepare for a short quiz,
it will be posted at LMS this
Monday.
REFERENCES
• https://www.ilo.org/empent/areas/entrepreneurship-and-enterprise-
development/lang—en/index.htm