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Steph -
I am certain that you are already aware of this, but... if Top Management isn't on board, and if they do not provide "objective evidence" of personal involvement and commitment to the initiative >>> you will not pass the scrutiny of an audit.
My only advice to you is that if you are "on the hook" for the ultimate success or failure of the system, it leaves you with one of two options:
Option 1: Prepare a report for top management explaining why this initiative is not in the company's future (i.e, Management Reponsibility.) It isn't the first element by accident. Your recommendation will save "X" amount of dollars in preparation and registration costs, etc. It seems he will most certainly buy into that and you may even get a raise, t'boot!
Option 2: Obviously, Top Management isn't prepared to operate an effective Quality Management System. I would have to question your Management's ability to run a business, clean up my resume, and start looking for a new job. I wouldn't want to work at a place where Management wasn't committed to continuous improvement to the Quality Management System. Let me change that a little... Management's indecisiveness with regard to going-for or not going-for certification is a symptom of what is probably a bigger "company cancer."
If Top Management cannot demonstrate commitment, it will spread through the ranks (if it hasn't already). Why stay?
ALM
I am certain that you are already aware of this, but... if Top Management isn't on board, and if they do not provide "objective evidence" of personal involvement and commitment to the initiative >>> you will not pass the scrutiny of an audit.
My only advice to you is that if you are "on the hook" for the ultimate success or failure of the system, it leaves you with one of two options:
Option 1: Prepare a report for top management explaining why this initiative is not in the company's future (i.e, Management Reponsibility.) It isn't the first element by accident. Your recommendation will save "X" amount of dollars in preparation and registration costs, etc. It seems he will most certainly buy into that and you may even get a raise, t'boot!
Option 2: Obviously, Top Management isn't prepared to operate an effective Quality Management System. I would have to question your Management's ability to run a business, clean up my resume, and start looking for a new job. I wouldn't want to work at a place where Management wasn't committed to continuous improvement to the Quality Management System. Let me change that a little... Management's indecisiveness with regard to going-for or not going-for certification is a symptom of what is probably a bigger "company cancer."
If Top Management cannot demonstrate commitment, it will spread through the ranks (if it hasn't already). Why stay?
ALM