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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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Eliminate activities

Eliminate unnecessary activities

Appoint case managers

Assign a responsible individual for handling each case type

Resequence activities

Move activities to more appropriate places

Split responsibilities

Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units

Green Feature

Let products appear greener

Human Process Performance

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

Offer Customer self-service

Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves

Expertise-based task assignment

Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency

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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