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New Management Systems as an Instrument of Implementation Sustainable Development Concept at Organizational Level
New Management Systems as an Instrument of Implementation Sustainable Development Concept at Organizational Level

Author(s): Alina Matuszak-Flejszman, Joanna Ejdys
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Keywords: sustainable development; environmental management; quality management; safety management

Summary/Abstract: Diversity of contemporary management concepts, short life duration of some of them, fashion of implementing popular solutions, indiscriminate adoption of management systems in companies simultaneously with a long period of waiting for positive effects of implemented changes and decreasing involvement of employees lead to the situation in which many companies still face unresolved dilemma of choosing the right strategy of acting that ensures sustainable development of a unit. Therefore, new solutions should be treated as one of the elements of organization improvement, not as an objective as such, and as the way of solving the existing problems. One of the ways of realizing sustainable development principles at the level of an organizational unit is implementation of normalized systems elaborated by International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The article presents a proposal of the way of implementing sustainable development concept at organizational level using three systems: quality, environmental, occupational health and safety management.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 202-218
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English