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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 standardized interfaces

Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners

Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Outsource activities

Delegate and optimize your operations

Apply triage

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

Use eco-friendly resources

Replace underlying resources with eco-friendly alternatives

Green Feature

Let products appear greener

Quality-based task assignment

Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics

Teamwork-based assignment

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

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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