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CHÂTEAUGUAY · L-1A FIELD GUIDE

What should evidence of a layered management structure include?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Provide relevant responsibility descriptions, reporting arrangements and actual decision examples. Explain which work is delegated and which remains with the applicant.

Connect the chart to operating facts

Use accurate records to show how each level functions. Avoid repeating the same generic management paragraph for every person, because that may leave the real division of duties unexplained. Date the chart and reconcile it, line by line, against the payroll register for the same month.

Any name on one and not the other needs a sentence of explanation — a contractor, a shared-services employee, a vacancy, a person paid by an affiliate. Attach to each management position its current job description with an effective date, and to the applicant’s position, three dated decisions with the document each one produced. Avoid submitting a single generic paragraph repeated under every box; identical descriptions for people who do different work tell the reader that nobody checked.

Where a description was rewritten recently, keep the previous version and note when the change took effect, since an undisclosed rewrite dated close to the filing raises exactly the question the file exists to close. Numbers help: how many people, in which functions, reporting to whom, taken from records rather than recollection. Say as well which entity holds each record, since a group that keeps payroll in one company and personnel files in another will otherwise appear to be missing documents it simply stores elsewhere.