A GROUP IS A PROPER SIZE WHEN THE INDIVIDUALS IN IT CAN EASILY APPROACH THE MANAGER OF THAT GROUP ON A FRIENDLY BASIS AND BE SURE HE KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND WHY AND IF THEY ARE DOING IT.
The principal reason orgs stay small is no matter how fancy their org boards they do not actually practise what is on the board but by-pass or pay no real attention to command lines and so in actual practice are only one or two oversized groups—which results in them staying small and being overworked and also underpaid as their system in actual practice is inefficient.
SUMMARY
A LARGE ORGANIZATION IS COMPOSED OF GROUPS, A SMALL ONE IS COMPOSED OF
INDIVIDUALS.
The primary difference between the opulent West and the starving East is
that the West still permits companies. This means to some extent the
Western nations are composed of groups so they are still somewhat
successful.
A GROUP IS A PROPER SIZE WHEN THE INDIVIDUALS IN IT CAN EASILY APPROACH
THE MANAGER OF THAT GROUP ON A FRIENDLY BASIS AND BE SURE HE KNOWS WHAT
THEY ARE DOING AND WHY AND IF THEY ARE DOING IT.
More than 5 persons plus their executive tends to be too large a group.
The persons under an executive can of course be executives of groups.
And the five persons below each of those executives can be executives of
groups.
If things aren't organized this way the individual is crushed. The
executive is crushed by overwork and the persons under him are overwhelmed.
By-pass of an executive, aside from putting him in danger, overwhelms
the members of his group and makes them do less and makes them feel
attacked and lessens their sense of their own power.
2 + an executive is also a group but the executive is not really working
to capacity.
With all Dev-T cared for an executive will be overworked if he is over
more than four subordinates.
The principal reason orgs stay small is no matter how fancy their org
boards they do not actually practise what is on the board but by-pass or
pay no real attention to command lines and so in actual practice are only
one or two oversized groups-which results in them staying small and being
overworked and also underpaid as their system in actual practice is
inefficient.
The moral is, practise proper grouping as provided by the org pattern,
never by-pass and so expand and have a happy staff.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd
Copyright (c) 1966
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED