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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

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

Split responsibilities

Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units

Apply triage

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

Human Process Performance

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

Preference-based task assignment

Let people do what they love to do

Performance-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success

Experience-based task assignment

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

Quality-based task assignment

Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics

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Deploy extra resources

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

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