Abstract. Sustainability is the contemporary meta-paradigm that influences both theory and practice of management. It reflect attitude of companies towards their environment, including natural resources, and enables obtaining competitive advantage if applied and implemented holistically and in a mature way. The goal of the paper is to present results of the assessment of organizational maturity in the aspect of sustainable resources management. The research was carried in Greatpoland (Wielkopolska) and Lower Silesia (Dolny Slask) regions in Poland between 2015 and 2016 to identify the level of maturity in the aspect of sustainable resources management.
ISO 9001 quality management systems are very popular in Poland. The changes in the standard introduced in 2015 related to, among other things, the treatment of risk management as a vital part of corporate governance, will make companies improve the management of their systems in this respect. The aim of the article is to present a model of organization improvement which takes into account the requirements associated with risk included in the standard ISO 9001: 2015, supported by the guidelines for risk management in accordance with ISO 31000: 2012. The model is the result of compilation work based on the cooperation of the authors of the article with more than 20 industrial enterprises over the past three years.
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