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Communication of Role Descriptions to Participants

Problem Different conceptions on how to fulfil individual roles within a VCL-project can lead to significant differences during the work progress. Tasks are generally linked to a certain role. Hence emerging tasks within the project are causing additional effort, if not linked to a role immediately. As a result tasks are either not completed at all or have been done twice.
Framework Assignment of Roles; Solving a Case Study.
Solution
Content of roles should be made transparent and communicated in advance to each member. This also promotes the identification of participants with their respective roles in a VCL-project.
Since roles are used within the case study, it is advisable to integrate them in the context of the case study itself as well. This means that the sample company advertises job ads of specific roles to which the participant must apply to (see Organisation of Team Assignment).
As a consequence members already know the content of the role and their activities before the project begins.
It is therefore recommendable to publish role descriptions on the learning platform, where they are accessible to everybody at all time.
References Organization of the Team Assignment
Selection of Roles
Content of the Role Description
Criteria of the Role Assignment
Organisational issues of the role assignment