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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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Appoint case managers

Assign a responsible individual for handling each case type

Empower resources

Empower workers for more decision-making authority

Split responsibilities

Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units

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Replace underlying resources with eco-friendly alternatives

Offer temporal flexibility

Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.

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

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

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