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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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Distinguish case types

Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes

Empower resources

Empower workers for more decision-making authority

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

Shift Workload

Execute tasks when the grid is powered by renewable energy

Human Process Performance

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

First-contact problem resolution

Establish a one-contact resolution for customer issues

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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