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Task delegation

Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy

Task delegation is when a person who was originally assigned a task passes it on to another person based on their position in the organisational hierarchy.

Goel, K., Fehrer, T., Röglinger, M., & Wynn, M. T. (2023). Not Here, But There: Human Resource Allocation Patterns. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 377–394).

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Empower resources

Empower workers for more decision-making authority

Fail Early

Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.

Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Apply triage

Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities

Tailored privacy settings

Offer customers the possibility to choose among privacy settings

Expertise-based task assignment

Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency

Quality-based task assignment

Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics

Cost-based task assignment

Delegate tasks according to resource cost

Department-based assignment

Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement

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Deploy extra resources

If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources

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