Aplinkos apsaugos vadybos sistemos (Vilniaus miesto paslaugų įmonių motyvacijos diegti AVS tyrimas) ; Environmental Management Systems (Vilnius Service Companies Motivation Survey for EMS Implementation)
The urgency of the paper. Environmental protections politics is formed by Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the Statement of principles for the Sustainable Management in international, Europe Union's program for sustainable development in regional and Lithuania's sustainable development plan – in national aspects. Total quality management and preventive environmental management principles are closely related – their essence is development of continuous improvement cycle with involvement of all employees of organization. These principles have the same goal: waste elimination or reduction. Total quality management defines the waste as lost time, including such indicators as inventory, number of defects and customer complaints; preventive environmental management defines the waste as pollution and inefficient resource consumption. Both total quality management and preventive environmental management help to increase profit and competitive advantage by implementation of systems approach enabling to improve economic indicators and to reduce negative impact on the environment. The main objective of this survey is to research the motivation for establishing environmental management systems in Vilnius service companies. The framework was divided in two parts – theoretic ant practical. The theoretic part consisted of main EMS theories, characteristics, concept of motivation, also environmental labeling characterization. Practical part was a survey in Vilnius service – providing companies. The conclusions were drawn and hypothesis was evaluated.