۱٫ Introduction

۲٫ Materials and methods

۳٫ Experimental

۴٫ Results and discussion

۵٫ Conclusions

References

The organizations’ need to satisfy consumers’ demand often generates various environmental negative impacts caused by delayed responses to different environmental issues. Therefore it is necessary that this relation between organizations and environment be effectively managed. This can be done only by implementing and integrating an Environmental management system (EMS). Likewise analyzing this issue through another perspective, the EMS can be considered as a hierarchical management system – that is “limited”, having in view the explosive modifications that define the current social reality. This paper presents the research results conducted at the level of NE Romania largest organizations that are predominantly developing industrial activities. The study sample is 171 organizational managers. The paper aims to improve EMS integration quality process by transforming and adapting its architecture relying on the principles of Fractal philosophy. Therefore, the general objective of this work is the development of a theoretical framework as a model based on Fractal design that should improve the EMS integration quality. It must be noted that this research also results in a practical component, since it provides the organizational manager with new working instruments in order to improve the EMS organizational integration.

Introduction

Organizations nowadays interact among them in an unstable environment and thus they must have extensive knowledge about clients, market tendencies, new different technologies that might be utilized for the settlement of various issues. Organizations must also have different management systems (for example compliance with ISO 14001 – International standard for Environmental Management System (EMS), ISO 9001 – International standard for Quality Management Systems (QMS), OHSAS 18001 – International standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHS), ISO 27000 – International standard for Information Security Management System (ISMS)), designed and implemented so that should be flexible, intelligent, easily configurable, and so on (Herghiligiu et al., 2013a; Herghiligiu, 2013). The consumers’ demand in this modern environment became diverse, dynamic and sometimes unpredictable, whereas the organization’s need to maintain and to increase a market share has become harder and harder to reach (Ryu and Jung, 2003a). Also organizations need to satisfy the consumers’ demand generates often various negative impacts on the environment. Therefore this relation between organizations and environment it’s absolutely necessary to be effectively manage through a management system – EMS. However the EMS can be considered nowadays as a hierarchical management system, used by those organizations that have a well-defined organizational system – hierarchical managed, and that “produce goods” in stable environmental conditions (Herghiligiu et al., 2012).