Role Transfer

Role transfer is the basic requirement for organizations and emergency management systems. It is used to evaluate the flexibility of a group when its membership and/or roles change. Role transfer is a complex event that may involve many relevant roles. When an organization encounters a crisis, not everyone's roles can be transferred. When one person transfers to a new role, his/her original role needs to be assumed by another role player if the role is required in the system. This change might initiate a series of role transfers.In collaboration, every role should be played by more than one agent and one agent should be able to play more than one role. However, how many roles should a person play or potentially play to deal with an emergency? Which roles should a person play? What role‐person mapping is effective in dealing with an emergency? What group structures can avoid crises? There are no clear, exact answers to these questions hitherto. This chapter demonstrates that specially assigned role‐person mapping can help a group survive better in an emergency. The E‐CARGO model can be successfully adopted in processing such situations.