BUSINESS

Management System Models

Executive Summary

This report is prepared by the Quality Manager to the Managing director of the company. Recently, a small company has been taken over by a large international company. This report an initial and broad insight towards projected management system models of the company. It is the result of 50 hours study of “use of quality models in business, role of standards in quality assurance and use of integrated management systems within organizations.” The need for research and study of management system models arises for introducing the investors in people award, combing and updating the three separate management systems for quality, environment and health / safety. The compliance evaluation and the benefits for a company are also examined in this report.

In this study, standards are defined as the long term process for thousands of years for achieving continual and measurable results. The quality management system should meet the requirements, revise processes to add value, attain productive results of performance and efficiency and enduring upgrading in policies and procedures. ISO 9001 is one of the most successful management system models. It comprises of eight segments. Implementation plan of combined and upgraded management system is also a significant part of this report. Last, but not the least, Conformity Assessment is also intend to implement in the company to achieve various objectives, benefits and continual improvement. The key words in this report include; Investors in people award, Quality management system, environment management system, health and safety management system, integrated management system and conformity assessment.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary1

Introduction3

Discussion4

Introduce Investors in People Award (The IIP Standard)5

Benefits for our Company, Employees and Customers:7

Management system for Quality:8

Management System for Environment:11

Management System for Health and Safety:12

Integrated Management System (Quality, Environment and Health and Safety):14

Advantages of Integrated system15

Implementation plan with timescales to introduce an integrated management system16

Understanding of Conformity Assessment, Implementation and Benefits19

Conclusion21

References24

Appendices26

Management System Models

Introduction

Every individual experiences problems and difficulties in their daily life routine, therefore they get involved in time consuming useless activities to solve those conflicts and rectify mistakes made by them. By time and again, errors, mistakes, blunders, readjustments increase at a rapid growth and this do not stop and approximately one-third of human hard work goes wasted. In the business life, it's much higher Oakland (2003, p. 15). Quality, as defined literally gives a simple meaning of bringing improvements. However, in business, it gives enables every individual to interact with other effectively. Nowadays, business has complexities and they hire experts, with innovative skills, as every department is dependable on activities of one another Oakland (2003, p.15). Few exciting applications of TQM (Total Quality management) consist of group of people, who see relevance when it was initially introduced to its concepts Oakland (2003, p.15). The main purpose of management system models is the need to measure effectiveness of current process and to plan new integrated plans for improvement in existing products and development of projected products. (Stracke, 2006)Specifically, the development of combined and integrated system of three separate plans will be ...