The word reassignment is made up of the prefix re (in this case indicating repetition) and the noun assignment, which expresses the relationship that one thing has with another, its correspondence. In this way, reallocation is to make again a connection between two aspects. Let’s take a simple example. A runner participates in a competition and receives a bib with a certain number. If the number he receives is wrong, he will have to request another and, in this case, there will be a reassignment.
As a correction method
Analyzing this concept, it can be seen that in any reassignment process there is a change, a modification. Normally, this type of change is due to some technical error and is corrected normally. The allocation and reassignment mechanism is framed in a need to order and classify some area of reality. Again the example may be useful. In a soccer team each player wears a number on the jersey. Let’s imagine that a team signs a great star, who demands to wear the number 9, which will cause the player who originally wore that number on his shirt to receive another.
To order daily life it is essential to resort to numbers. We use them for everything (the phone, social security or access codes). Some numbers are permanent (for example, the number of the identity document) but others can be modified for some reason and in these cases there is a reassignment.
Curiosities and specific circumstances
Each person corresponds to a sex. However, in some cases there are individuals who, being of one sex, consider that their true nature should be of the opposite sex, for which reason a reassignment is necessary, that is, a surgical operation that allows them to stop being a man and become a woman or to the reverse (we would be talking about sex reassignment surgery).
The business world is subject to permanent changes. In a normalized situation, each worker is assigned specific functions, but with some frequency it is convenient to make some modification and a reassignment of the organizational structure of a company occurs.
From a social point of view, the term is confused with redistribution
Despite the clarifications and examples mentioned, the concept of reallocation is confused with relative frequency with others that have a similarity: redistribution and rearrangement. Redistribution expresses that there is a change in the distribution and rearrangement indicates that the change occurs in relation to a certain order.
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