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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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Assign cases

Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases

Distinguish case types

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

Establish a case-based mindset

Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process

Resequence activities

Move activities to more appropriate places

Apply triage

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

Workload-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload

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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