THE P.R.A.D.O. METHOD

PROCESS OF RESEARCH & ACTION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ORGANIZATIONS

The P.R.A.D.O. Method is a Customized Method for Participative Management, which means that it integrates Cultural specificities within the Organization into its change-oriented projects in order to optimize Efficiency. The P.R.A.D.O Method is based on the existence for any Industrial or Institutional Organization of a twofold environment:

• The first, an external one: "the Market" (Customers, Shareholders, Suppliers, Trade Unions and Authorities);
• The other, an internal one: the "Men within the Organization" (the Board of Directors, Executive staff, Managerial staff, Implementation Personnel and Trade Union Representatives.

Like the "Marketing Process" (The communication process between the Organization and its Market, by using Market Researches, the aim of which is to optimize the product's suitability to Market Requirements), the P.R.A.D.O. Method is an "Organizational Communication Process" between the various human components of the Organization, by means of "Psychosocial Audit For Organizational Development" whose aim is to reduce the internal strains within the Organization, so to "optimize global efficiency".

In order to do so, the P.R.A.D.O. Method operates a "Psycho-Pedagogical Sensitization" whose aims are:

• to create a "Common Language" through a code of fundamental Principles for Communication and Human Relationships, in order to optimize "Dialog" and "Mutual understanding";
• to set a "Common Approach" of the problems encountered in the internal daily operation, at every level of Organization, so that it develops "Everybody's Involvement" and consequently "Staff Work";
• to elaborate a "Common Managerial Style" so as to insure, within the framework of the Organization as a whole, "Coherency", "Coordination" and "Internal Cohesion".

This "Organizational Process" being structured upon the data stemming from the "Psychosocial Audit For Organizational Development" has as its fundamental purpose to make of each one within the Organization an "AUTEUR-ACTEUR" of his own professional course and as its final aim to "Optimize the Organization's Global Efficiency".