ADMINISTRATION

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1. (admin) A contraction or shortening of the word administration, admin is used as a noun to denote the actions involved in administering an organization. The clerical and executive decisions, actions and duties necessary to the running of an organization, such as originating and answering mail, typing, filing, dispatching, applying policy and all those actions, large and small, which make up an organization. You will also see the word admin in connection with the three musts of a well run organization. It is said that its ethics, tech and admin must be "in", which means they must be properly done, orderly and effective. The word derives from minister, which means to serve. Administer means to manage, govern, to apply or direct the application of laws, or discipline, to conduct or execute religious offices, dispense rights. It comes from the Latin, administrare, to manage, carry out, accomplish, to attend, wait, serve. In modern English, when they use administration they mean management or running a government or the group that is in charge of the organization or the state. (LRH Def. Notes)

2. contains the establishment of the communication lines, and the flow lines and the information lines and so on, so that you can get team operation. (FEBC 1, 7011C17 SO)

3. the subject of how to organize or establish or correct the spaces, terminals, flows, line duties, equipment, materiel and so forth of a production group so as to establish optimum volume, quality and viability. (HCO PL 4 Jun 71)

4. the principles, practices and rationalized techniques employed in achieving the objectives or aims of an organization. We commonly call this "admin" as a shortening of it and to designate the work of doing it. (HCO PL 9 Nov 68)

5. a form of communication. Adequate administration consists of keeping certain communication terminals in place and making sure that the proper particles go to and through the proper terminals. (PAB 78)

6. consists of the formation and handling of the lines and terminals involved in production. (HCOB 25 Aug 71)

7. includes promotion, personnel, lines or anything, not ethics, mentioned in policy letters. (FO 495)