Studying the Effect of Establishment Integrated Management System on Organizational Maturity in Fourth Refinery Gas Asaluye

Abstract

An Integrated Management System (IMS) incorporates many subsystems into a unique system so that the organization can conduct its operations using a single integrated system. This system is the result of unifying Quality Management Systems ISO 9001, Environmental Management Systems ISO 14001, and Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS 18001). The present paper aims to determine the impact of IMS on process maturity. This study was conducted in 2014 in the Fourth Gas Refinery in Asaluyeh, where 124 members of the staff were selected at random as the sample. Using extant literature, a questionnaire was developed to measure the impact of IMS. The collected data were analyzed using AMOS and SPSS software packages. The results indicate that IMS and its subsystems including quality management, environmental management, and occupational health and safety have a significant positive impact on process maturity. Furthermore, the means for quality management, environmental management, occupational health and safety, and process maturity are 4.11, 4.17, 4.12, and 4.08 respectively, all of which are acceptable.