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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

Establish a case-based mindset

Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process

Reduce touchpoints

Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

Human Process Performance

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

Role-based task assignment

Assign tasks based on resources' roles in the organisation

Workload-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload

Performance-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success

Teamwork-based assignment

Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity

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Deploy extra resources

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

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