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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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Specialist-generalist

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Consolidate Work

Collect similar work items and work in batches

Automate for environmental impact

Implement automation in a sustainable way

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Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.

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Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency

Task delegation

Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy

Experience-based task assignment

Delegate task according to experience: execution frequency, case involvement, interactions

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Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement

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

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