What Is An Organization Flashcards
What is the definition of policy we use?
Any governing principle, plan or course of action.
HCO PL POLICY: SOURCE OF
In what sense do we use policy?
The rules and administrative formulas by which we agree on action and conduct our affairs.
HCO PL POLICY: SOURCE OF
What is the Expansion Formula?
- PROVIDE GOOD POLICY
- MAKE IT EASILY KNOWABLE
- BE STRENUOUS IN MAKING SURE IT IS FOLLOWED.
HCO PL THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATION, WHAT IS POLICY?
What must be the basic policy of an activity?
The basic policy of an activity must be the defining and recommending of a successful and desirable basic purpose.
HCO PL THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATION, WHAT IS POLICY?
What would mismanagement of self, an organization, group or state consist of?
Failing to forward the BASIC PURPOSE, not grasping and specifying SUBPURPOSES, and not experiencing and formulating policies to strengthen successful ideas or actions that forward the basic and subpurposes and impede ideas or actions that retard them, and not recognizing actual enemies or oppositions or planning and carrying out successful campaigns to handle them.
HCO PL THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATION, WHAT IS POLICY?
What is the Formula of Policy?
- Conceiving, recognizing, testing and codifying successful ideas, actions and procedures that forward the basic purpose and retard its opposition;
- Making these policies known and in greater or lesser degree understood; and
- Getting these policies followed.
HCO PL THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATION, WHAT IS POLICY?
What does Reality in policy, in orders, in advice depend upon?
Either great insight or great experience. Combining both gives great success.
HCO PL THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATION, WHAT IS POLICY?
What is the basic formula of living?
HAVING AND FOLLOWING A BASIC PURPOSE.
HCO PL THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATION, WHAT IS POLICY?
What does an executive have to do to expand a part or the whole of an org?
All an executive has to do to expand a part or the whole of an org is to divine the basic purpose, divine or issue the subpurposes, point out an area to expand into and then remove the distractions from, barriers to and noncompliance with the basic purpose and subpurposes, and put something on the channels that augments existing impulses and expansion will begin.
HCO PL THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATION, WHAT IS POLICY?
What conditions determine the degree of success of the executive in his execution of the expansion formula?
It will be successful to the degree that the basic purpose is good, the subpurposes are real and the policies are taken from real experience and interpreted by persons facing similar current problems.
HCO PL THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATION, WHAT IS POLICY?
Once the executive has executed the expansion formula and expansion has begun, what process must he follow thereafter?
By the process, thereafter, of just removing barriers, distractions and non-compliance, expansion can be accelerated to a point where it overwhelms all hostile efforts to contain it and the result is extremely gratifying in terms of expansion at velocity. It seems completely magical. For life instantly appears.
HCO PL THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATION, WHAT IS POLICY?
What do the boundaries of a channel in an org consist of?
They consist of discipline of those who would distract or stray or wander or who help the opposition or suppress the basic purpose or subpurposes or who cannot seem to learn or comply with policies or orders.
HCO PL THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATION, WHAT IS POLICY?
What’s the first thing you want to know about organizations?
They have command charts and they are command charts and not communication charts!
And when you try to put a communication through a command chart, you’re in the soup.
Tape, Definition of Organization Part , 8 Nov 1956
What happens if you start following a command chart?
You start bottlenecking. Therefore, all initiative in the organization is destroyed.
Tape, Definition of Organization Part , 8 Nov 1956
Why does a communication chart turn into a command chart?
Because none of the communication points on it are terminals in fact or actuality. Nobody there can stop a communication, so they all collapse on the chief. Got it?
Tape, Definition of Organization Part , 8 Nov 1956
What is the definition of an organization?
An organization consists of communication terminals and communication lines associated with a common purpose or goal.
Tape, Definition of Organization Part I, 8 Nov 1956
What do all organizational confusions and randomity result from?
If there are too many lines and too few terminals, the lines will snap on those terminals. If there are too few communication lines and too many terminals, terminals will snap on the lines.
Tape, Definition of Organization Part I, 8 Nov 1956
Where does data come from?
Data comes from tabulation of actions and amounts in organizations.
HCO PL THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATION, WHAT IS POLICY?
What is the primary problem of a corporate body?
How to obtain an equitable not too oppressive relationship between the individual and the corporate body and between the corporate body and the individual.
Tape: Government and Organization(track 9)
What does any company need to expand?
To expand, any company needs a demanded product and will and skill to produce and deliver it. It can be a service or an item.
AKH Series 9, EXPANSION THEORY OF POLICY
What must a company do to expand?
If a company has a demanded product and will and skill to produce and deliver it, it must must organize to expand.
AKH Series 9, EXPANSION THEORY OF POLICY
What is our punitive force and what does it exist for?
Our punitive force is our Ethics system and it exists to ensure the quality of the product and to prevent the blunting of demand for the product.
AKH Series 9, EXPANSION THEORY OF POLICY
What does one interpret policy against?
One interprets policy against Proper Expansion that is proper.
AKH Series 9, EXPANSION THEORY OF POLICY
What is correct expansion?
Expansion which, when expanded, can hold its territory without effort is proper and correct expansion.
AKH Series 9, EXPANSION THEORY OF POLICY
What do all ways to “overexpand” boil down to?
They all boil down to overextended administration lines in a single administrative unit.
AKH Series 9, EXPANSION THEORY OF POLICY
What is the wrong way to expand?
The wrong way to expand is to staff and facilities endlessly (like governments tend to do) without adding to the organization itself.
If you had huge affluences occurring steadily, you would soon go into collapse if you did not expand also by organizational units or branches.
AKH Series 9, EXPANSION THEORY OF POLICY
In the presence of huge escalating affluences, what must one analyze?
One must analyze what is causing them and reinforce them. BUT one must also see what new KIND of traffic is being added.
AKH Series 9, EXPANSION THEORY OF POLICY
In the presence of huge escalating affluences, if one finds a new KIND of traffic, then what must one do?
…one sets up a suborganization unit to handle it which is complete in itself.
AKH Series 9, EXPANSION THEORY OF POLICY
What are the only ways you can “overexpand?
The only ways you can “overexpand” are to fail to expand with new demand and keep pace with it evenly with organizational expansion as well as numbers.
AKH Series 9, EXPANSION THEORY OF POLICY
What is the answer to “overexpansion?”
The answer, within reason, is to advance all else to catch up to the expanded portion while still, more calmly, expanding it.
AKH Series 9, EXPANSION THEORY OF POLICY
What is the basic difference between organizations that run and those that collapse?
Somebody caring what happens to the organization itself.
AKH Series 6, GOOD VERSUS BAD MANAGEMENT
What is the best and only effective way to handle people who quote policy to show you they can’t follow it?
Say: “Since you are an expert on policy, permit me to ask you a few questions.” Take up a PL applying to their post and start doing a hat check on it.
AKH Series 9, EXPANSION THEORY OF POLICY
What is the most serious threat to the stability of an org?
…the most serious threat to the stability of an org is shifting lines with no understanding of what is supposed to happen.
HCO PL 10 July 1965, LINES AND TERMINALS
What are the most important things in an organization?
…its lines and terminals. Without these IN, IN AN EXACT KNOWN PATTERN the organization cannot function at all.
HCO PL 10 July 1965, LINES AND TERMINALS
What is the basic theory of organization?
- SO LONG AS EACH KNOWS AND WEARS AND WORKS AT HIS OWN HAT ONLY, THINGS WILL BE SMOOTH.
- AND SO LONG AS EACH PERSON KNOWS WHAT THE OTHER HATS AROUND HIM DO, HE CAN GIVE THEM THEIR WORK WHEN IT COMES HIS WAY AND ALL WILL BE SUCCESSFUL AND SMOOTH.
HCO PL 1 July 1965, HATS, THE REASON FOR
What is the purpose of a Committee of Evidence?
To handle any and all personal or organizational or field matters requiring justice.
HCO PL 7 September 1963
Committees of Evidence
Scientology jurisprudence, Administration of
What is a Committee of Evidence composed of?
The committee is composed of a chairman, secretary and two to five members appointed by the convening authority.
HCO PL 7 September 1963
Committees of Evidence
Scientology jurisprudence, Administration of
What are the (2) main principles of Fast Flow Management?
…A being controlling traffic or activity flow should let the flow run until it is to be reinforced or indicates a turbulence will occur and only then inspects the part of the flow that is to be reinforced or is becoming enturbulated and inspects and acts on only that one flow.
…the principle of flows tells us that the executive should have statistical INDICATORS such as OIC charts on every part of the activity each week and should act only on the basis of the charts’ behaviors.
HCO PL 29 MARCH 1965, Issue II, FLOWS AND EXPANSION THE FAST FLOW SYSTEM