Factors Influencing Integrated Management System Practices (original) (raw)

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The implementation and certification of quality, environmental, and occupational health and safety management systems have become a preference for many organisations. In facts, most current practice in the area of quality standard, each organisation needs to spend huge amount of money in order to gain the certification for each quality management standard such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. Hence, the combination of these management systems that lead to the formation of Integrated Management System (IMS) was established. There is a trend for the organisation to implement an IMS in order to overcome any problems resulting from multiple management systems. Besides, there are connection between quality management and risk management system -ISO 31000 that need to be identified in order to enhance the effectiveness of IMS. This research focuses on identifying the factors of IMS implementation, investigating the converged and diverged components in management system, studying the implementation of IMS and investigating the possible integration of ISO 31000 into current IMS practices. The research was based on social constructivism under an exploratory study. Multiple cases studies and in-depth literature review were employed as the research design approach. Three methods of key data collection (qualitative methods) were used: (1) Primary data from face-to-face interview (2) Primary data from expert opinion survey via e-mail (electronic mail survey) and 3Secondary data from official documents. Also, two methods of analysis were used, namely: (1) Time series/chronology/historical analysis and (2) Explanation building.

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