Integrated management systems: survey results from Portuguese companies and experts

The proliferation of several certifiable sub-systems among different type of organizations lead companies to excessive departmentalization. This fact turned out to be, due to several reasons pointed out by numerous authors, disadvantageous. Hence, organizations optioned by integration of their management sub-systems. Academic awareness to this sociological event is mainly related with the fact of integration of management systems (IMS) had been performed empirically, that is, by each organization on their own due to the lack of an International Normative. In this paper it is intended to present the refined results from an online survey focused on Portuguese companies ruled by integrated management systems (IMS). These results will be crossed against a questionnaire under taken through a panel of academic and industry experts in order to weight the parameters surveyed online through a perspective of management system integration degree. The conclusions from this work also address Occupational Health and Safety issues in an integrated environment