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Being in a team (department), cooperation is an essential work method for the smooth progress of every project. But how to reasonably display and evaluate everyone’s contribution, so that everyone can see their own value, is not an easy task.
I have encountered this problem several times during my work in the past year. Sometimes I feel that my contribution has not been seen by others, and sometimes I feel that the contribution of others is not clear enough when I finally show work.
Thinking about it a little, actually measuring the contribution of individuals to the project in the team is a two-dimensional thing. One is how to evaluate relatively objectively from the outside, and the other is how to meet self-needs in the project.
Identify and clearly demonstrate everyone’s contribution
Contributor role classification CRediT
If you want to obtain or give reasonable evaluation to others, you first need to clarify the responsibilities that may exist in a project.
In the cooperation of scientific research projects, especially those involving the publication of papers, there is already a relatively recognized method of Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT, Contributor Roles Taxonomy).
CRediT was presented in 2012 at a collaborative workshop organized by Harvard University and the Wellcome Trust, with comments from researchers, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and publishers.
This category includes 14 roles that can be used to represent the roles typically played by contributors to scientific output. The purpose of introducing CRediT is to recognize the contributions of individual authors, while reducing disputes between authors and promoting better collaboration.
| Roles | Role | contribute |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptualization | essay idea | Generate ideas, formulate or deductively expand the main research purpose. |
| Data curation | data management | Annotate, organize and maintain (including software or programs) for initial use and subsequent replay of data. |
| Formal analysis | formal analysis | Analyze or synthesize research data using statistical, mathematical, computational or other forms of technology. |
| Funding acquisition | get funding | To seek and obtain funding for the publication of the research results of the project. |
| Investigation | Research | Conduct research and carry out investigative processes, especially when conducting experimental research or collecting data and evidence. |
| Methodology | Methodology | Develop or design research methods and build models. |
| Project administration | project management | Manage and coordinate the planning and execution of research activities. |
| Resources | resource | Provide research materials, reagents, cases, laboratory samples, animals, instruments, computing equipment resources or other analytical tools. |
| Software | software | Programming, developing software, designing computer programs, implementing computer programs and supporting algorithms, and testing existing programs. |
| Supervision | guide | Supervise and lead the planning and execution of research activities, including mentoring those outside the core members. |
| Validation | verify | Validation of the reproduction and reproduction of research results, experiments, or other research output, including verification in whole or in part. |
| Visualization | visualization | The preparation, creation or presentation of published content, especially the visual presentation of content or data. |
| Writing – original draft | first draft writing | Prepare, create or present content for publication, especially writing first drafts, including substantive translations. |
| Writing –review & editing | Review and editorial writing | Prepare, create or present, especially comment, annotate or revise the content proposed for publication by the original research team, including work that occurs before and after publication. |
With a clear role contribution, another problem is how to clarify the relationship between authorship and contributorship, or how to determine which roles are more important (should appear in the author list).
In the ICMJE’s statement on defining the roles of authors and contributors , it is believed that author contributions should be based on four principles.
- Substantial contribution to the conception or design of the project; acquisition, analysis and interpretation of project data
- Drafted project content or made critical revisions to important content
- Final approval of the version for publication
- Agree to be responsible for all aspects of the work, ensuring that issues related to the accuracy or completeness of any part are properly investigated and resolved.
Principles of Public Display
During the pre-project planning process, the roles of each participant should be clearly defined. In each subsequent public discussion or sharing, the contributions of the participants should be clearly displayed.
My understanding of the so-called disclosure is in the presence of non-actual participants of the project; the so-called clear is in the display link (the corresponding page of the PPT or the relevant part of the text material), and it should be emphasized which part of the work is completed by who.
Meet individual needs in the project
In addition to external recognition, another gain in cooperation depends on self-experience, namely how individual needs are met in the project.
Let’s start with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
The lowest level of demand in work is safety demand, that is, the guarantee of salary and benefits, and there will be no accidental layoffs.
The actual participation in the project is to bring the satisfaction of the top three layers:
- The social need to communicate and connect with others;
- The need to be recognized and respected;
- The need for self-worth to be realized.
In order to realize the above requirements, it is necessary to:
- Provide an open and psychologically safe environment in which members can express their views and ask their own questions;
- Frequent purposeful communication to maintain positive relationships among members;
- Maintain high-frequency effective feedback (which can be positive or negative), and share members’ contributions in every regular meeting.
- Encourage members to pay more attention to self-state and personal development. Give members the opportunity to show their personal values, characteristics and sense of mission at work
The author of this article : Bear who thinks about problems
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