Selective integration of management systems: a case study in the construction industry
Selective integration of management systems: a case study in the construction industry is a scholarly work, published in 2019 in ''The TQM Journal''. The main subjects of the publication include business, occupational health and safety, quality, supply chain management, originality, certification, quality management, process management, cindynics, operations management, obsolescence, quality management system, management system, computer science, and ignorance. Focusing on the second reason, the purpose of this paper is to examine a number of factors that can lead an organization to consciously choose not to integrate all of its management systems.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents a case study of a construction company that has integrated the environmental management system and the occupational health and safety management system – which implies that the company is familiar with the practice of integration – while choosing to implement the quality management system separately from the other two.FindingsThe findings of this study show that the reasons that led the company not to integrate all of its systems are not so much related to the compatibility of these systems, but are much deeper and have implications that touch upon its basic principles and values.