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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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Foundational free Patterns

Outsource activities

Delegate and optimize your operations

Resequence activities

Move activities to more appropriate places

Split responsibilities

Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units

Automate for environmental impact

Implement automation in a sustainable way

Human Process Performance

Consider whether it is eco-friendly to let humans work over machines

Expertise-based task assignment

Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency

Role-based task assignment

Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation

Preference-based task assignment

Let people do what they love to do

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Deploy extra resources

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

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