The word reassignment is made up of the prefix re (which indicates repetition in this case) and the noun assignment, which expresses the relationship that one thing has with another, its correspondence. In this way, reassignment is to make a connection between two aspects again. Let's take a simple example. A runner participates in a competition and receives a bib number with a specific number. If the number you receive is wrong you will have to request another and, in this case, there will be a reassignment.
As a correction method
Analyzing this concept, it is appreciated 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 can be useful. In a soccer team each player wears a number on his shirt. 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 telephone, social security or access codes). Some numbers are permanent (for example, that 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 has 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, which is why a reassignment is necessary, that is, a surgical operation that allows them to stop being a man and become a woman or to become a woman. reverse (we would be talking about sex reassignment surgery).
The business world is subject to permanent change. In a normalized situation, each worker is assigned specific functions, but with some frequency it is convenient to carry out 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 relatively frequently confused 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.
