HAT

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Definitions

1. a hat consists of a checksheet and pack fully word cleared and studied and known to a point of full application of the data therein. (HCO PL 8 Nov 73RA)

2. developed in 1950 for use in Dn orgs as a special technology. The term and idea of a hat comes from conductors or locomotive engineers, etc., each of whom wears a distinctive and different type of headgear. A hat therefore designates particular status and duties in an organization. (HCO PL 22 Sept 70)

3. a hat designates what terminal in the organization is represented and what the terminal handles and what flows the terminal directs. Every hat has a product. (HCO PL 22 Sept 70)

4. a hat is a specialty. It handles or controls certain particles in various actions and receives, changes and routes them. (HCO PL 22 Sept 70)

5. a term used to describe the write-ups, checksheets and packs that outline the purposes, know-how and duties of a post. It exists in folders and packs and is trained-in on the person on the post. (HCO PL 22 Sept 70)

6. the duties of a post. It comes from the fact that jobs are often distinguished by a type of hat as fireman, policeman, conductor, etc. Hence the term hat. A hat is really a folder containing the write-ups of past incumbents on a post plus a checksheet of all data relating to the post plus a pack of materials that cover the post. (HCO PL 13 Sept 70)

7. usually when a person has been on a job a while he knows what it consists of. He then should write up his hat, meaning in this case a folder which contains past orders and directions which outline his job plus his own summary of his job. When one is transferred or leaves a post he is supposed to "write up his hat" which is to say, modernize this summary of the post. (HCO PL 3 Dec 68)

8. on a train, a locomotive engineer and a conductor each wears a different kind of hat. You will notice that various jobs in the society are designated by different hats. From this we get the word hat as a slang term meaning one's specialized duties. This is one's hat. (HCO PL 3 Dec 68)

9. a permanent folder, in the possession of a staff member, which describes his duties on that post in full and which contains general organization orders. The folder must be complete and up-to-date. (Organization PL, 10 Jan 58)

10. every staff department head in every organization should have a folder in his desk in which to place all written material and bulletins which apply to his job. It is his hat. This folder should be labeled, for example, "Director of Processing," or "Indoc Instructor" or "HCO Secretary" or any such post. The folder should then receive after study any policy letter or executive order or HCO Bulletin applying in general or in particular to that job. (HCOB 28 Feb 57)

11. a hat is a duty. It outlines the actions necessary to accomplish a production and receive what's needed, change and route it. What defines a hat is a product. If you count up the expected products you get the minimum number of hats. The steps to get the product is the hat. Products are also composed of lesser products, so hats can be enlarged. It's what you designate as a product that makes the hat. It's the importance of that product to others on the line that makes the hat's importance. The completeness and size of the product make the seniority of the hat. The overall product of a division determines the hat of the divisional officer. The lesser products that when combined make the overall product determine the rest of the division hats. Until you can define in one go the overall product of a division you aren't likely to be able to post any real part of its org board for the product of hats of that division add up to the divisional product. (OODs 29 Oct 70)

12. slang for the title and work of a post in a Scientology Church. Taken from the fact that in many professions such as railroading the type of hat worn is the badge of the job. (HCO PL 1 Jul 65 III)

13. term used to describe the write ups, checksheets and packs that outline the purposes, know-how and duties of a post. It exists in folders and packs and is trained in on the person on the post. (HCO PL 22 Sept 70)