ADMINISTRATOR

“It is not man’s dreams that fail him,” declared L. Ron Hubbard in 1969. “It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.”

The consequences stare back at us every day: crippling deficits, onerous taxation, failing businesses, and in the prosperous United States alone, more than 30 million people now living below the poverty line. It is not for nothing, then, that Mr. Hubbard further explained, “Man’s happiness and the longevity of companies and states apparently depend upon organizational know-how.”

If one genuinely understood how individuals best function – their needs, aspirations and the source of their failings – one would naturally understand how groups of individuals best function. And so L. Ron Hubbard addressed the problems of how we cooperate with others – not with administrative gimmicks or authoritarian decrees, but with a uniquely compassionate view of groups as individuals united in a common purpose.

In all, Mr. Hubbard spent more than three decades developing and codifying the administrative policies by which Scientology organizations function. Derived from the fundamental laws governing all human behavior, these constitute a body of knowledge as important to the subject of groups as his writings on Dianetics and Scientology are to the rehabilitation of the individual spirit. It is no small testimony to the value of his administrative advances that Scientology has become the fastest-growing religion in the world.

At the heart of his administrative discoveries is the Organizing Board or “Org Board” as it is more generally known. Developed in 1965, this is the diagrammatic pattern of organization and actually describes the ideal organizational pattern for any activity, divided into seven essential divisions.

Having defined this ideal organizational form, Mr. Hubbard next provides the specific administrative policies upon which that form functions, a set of reference texts known as the Organization Executive Course (OEC). A volume corresponds to each division of the Org Board, laying out the exact operations and functions of that division. In additional volumes known as the Management Series, Mr. Hubbard likewise provides all an executive needs to know, from how to organize, to how to handle personnel and even the art of public relations. Thus, the OEC Volumes provide the policies by which one runs an organization, while the Management Series provides the policies by which organizations are managed.

These volumes represent not a particular interest in business, but a desire to make the fundamental truths of life known to others — and since work, and its attendant administration, occupies so much of our lives, his efforts in the field were appropriate. If today’s businesses and governments could competently apply the basic principles of organization and administration, they would enact workable solutions to what has often become economic and social chaos. Such is the role of L. Ron Hubbard’s administrative technology: to provide the means whereby businesses might prosper, governments rule wisely, people may be free of economic duress, and, in short, failed dreams may be revived.

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