Stakeholder Management as Part of Integrated Management System in the Furniture Industry

Nowadays the foreground includes the participation of short-term returns, but mainly social and environmental consequences of management decisions. Objective of the paper is to analysis the application of the stakeholder management as part of integrated management. Subject of the analysis are small and medium companies operating and conducting their business activities in Slovakia, included according to the type of their activities in the furniture industry, selected from company database supplied by the Information and Statistics Institute - INFOSAT. As of 31.07.2015 our criteria were met by 190 small and 47 medium companies, comprising the major set. The survey was conducted on a selective sample of 116 companies during July - August 2015, using annual reports, policies and other strategic documents available from the companies’ websites as information source. We evaluated the results using Spearman coefficient and the Chi quadrant IBM SPSS Statistics 19 programs. We came to the conclusion that the companies do not apply integrated management system and stakeholder management.