There is no reason whatever to ever contract or reduce the size of an org except covert destruction.

The stable rule of a good HAS or HCO Cope Officer is NEVER UNMOCK A WORKING INSTALLATION.

In theory there is no limit to the size of an org.

It takes a lot of executive time and effort to build up a section or dept or division.

The 1967 org bd is capable of expanding to 200,000 staff members!

For someone to then come along and scramble it up with transfers is a criminal action.

For our purposes, there is no real limit to expansion.

If a unit, section, dept or division is operating well, don’t unmock it.

So long as property purchase does not commit future income dangerously and so long as HASes keep the admin staff in a ratio of two to one technical staff, there is no limit to expansion.

Strengthen it. Hat it better. Put apprentices in it opposite to its posts to learn. Give it help.

So long as cash-bills is kept more cash than bills there is no limit to expansion.

But DON’T SCRAMBLE IT.

So long as the staff produces what their posts call for there is no limit to expansion.

The work of years can be destroyed overnight by “urgent,” “vital” personnel action.

So long as you DELIVER in quality what you SELL there is no limit to expansion.

Such crazy actions are only done by people too lazy to recruit and train new people or by unreal financial planning or a failure to get it to produce.

So long as you keep standard on admin and keep standard on tech, there is no limit to expansion.

THE MAIN REASON WE HAVE EVER HAD SLUMPS HAS BEEN UNMOCKING ORGS OR UNITS.

So don’t get frightened, don’t fire people, don’t cut back. Understand the above and the whole of this policy letter. And there is no limit to expansion.

Firing people, too heavy ethics, putting off people as “PTS” when all you needed was to pull their withholds, a thousand reasons can be given for unmocking an org or its parts.

So EXPAND.

They are all cover-ups for execs who won’t keep the place busy and for HCO failures to recruit, train and hat.

To do so is a sign of insanity.

People like their jobs.

DON’T UNMOCK A WORKING INSTALLATION.

[Note: See also HCO PL 13 July 1974, Issue II, Org Series 34, WORKING INSTALLATIONS on page 423 of Management Series Volume 1.]