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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

Combine activities

Combine small activities into composite activities

Eliminate activities

Eliminate unnecessary activities

Apply Integral technology

Elevate physical constraints by applying new technology

Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Split responsibilities

Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units

Task delegation

Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy

Experience-based task assignment

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

Cost-based task assignment

Delegate tasks according to resource cost

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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