HOW TO INTEGRATE STANDARDIZED MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

There is a number of standards issued by the International Organization for Standardization in a structured and formal way (ISO standards) for the various management systems that can be applied in the organization. Organizations that decided to implement these standards are faced with following questions: what standards to introduce, in which order, when to start the implementation, how to implement the chosen standards - individually or simultaneously and of course the most difficult question - how to combine them together into one integrated management system? The aim of this paper is to consider the stated questions and possibly answer to some of them.