Name of Project:
DAO Contributor Health Assessment Development
Proposal in one sentence:
TalentDAO will develop a scientifically validated survey tool for measuring the psychological factors of DAO contributors that lead to a healthy organization while enabling the sharing of this data in a secure way via the OCEAN protocol.
Description of the project and what problem is it solving:
DAOs want to conduct surveys to better understand contributors in their communities. Surveys are by nature a scientific tool. As of today, no scientifically validated survey exists for studying organizational health in the context of DAO contributors. Scientifically validating a contributor health survey offers benefits to DAOs. Namely, the accurate and reliable measure of psychological factors that predict organizational behaviors related to leadership, engagement, productivity, churn, and governance decisions.
With its depth of expertise in psychometrics and the organizational sciences, talentDAO will design and validate a DAO contributor health assessment. Additionally, talentDAO will conduct this survey on a yearly basis and will encourage DAO contributors from across the ecosystem to participate. Data from each year’s survey will be listed on the OCEAN marketplace for DAOs to acquire and talentDAO will publish a yearly report on contributor health in an effort to keep the DAO ecosystem informed on the psychological factors of contribution.
Hosting survey results on a data marketplace is not something traditional organizations are willing or capable of doing because of privacy concerns and regulations such as GDPR. However, using OCEAN protocol’s fine-grained permissions and compute-to-data, this problem should be subverted. Survey data that was once a private commodity to research organizations is now a publicly listed asset on the OCEAN marketplace.
Grant Deliverables:
- Literature Review write up
- Pre-validated contributor health survey
Which Project Category
- Unleash Data / Community
Are you applying for an Earmark?
- New Project
What is the final product?
This project will ultimately result in a scientifically validated survey tool for DAOs to measure the psychological factors of contribution. TalentDAO is committed to delivering a write-up of the literature review as well as an empirically driven pre-validated survey that can be utilized by OceanDAO and other DAOs while the full validation study is being conducted.
Question on “value add” criteria: which one or more of the criteria will your project focus on? Why do you believe your team will do well on those criteria?
Usage of Ocean: Survey data on the OCEAN marketplace should be highly valuable to researchers and other DAOs who normally cannot get access to these data, attracting them to the marketplace. Further, survey data will be published on OCEAN each year, making this a recurring event that will ideally grow in participation over time.
Viability: High chance of success. We are a team of organizational scientists and researchers with experience working with psychometrics. However, technical details of the survey system and its interface with OCEAN are still being worked out and may require additional development resources.
Adding value to the OCEAN ecosystem: We invite OceanDAO to be a participant in the survey validation research. As a result, talentDAO will provide tailored insights into the psychological factors of contribution within OceanDAO.
Funding Requested:
$3000 usd
Proposal Wallet Address:
0x0406Bf2dAE6A42d567b4e3DbA6ADA99069622fF1
Have you previously received an OceanDAO Grant? If yes, please specify what round(s) and how much was granted each round.
No
Team Website (if applicable):
Twitter Handle (if applicable):
Discord Handle (if applicable):
@k3nn.eth#0270
Project lead full name:
Kenneth Francis
Project lead email:
Country of Residence:
United States
Part 2 - Team
2.1 Core Team
This scientific work will be conducted and authored by Kenneth Francis, Nemo, Sherif al-Qallawi, and Saulthorin. The necessary tasks towards the completion of the project will be a combined effort of the talentDAO community.
Kenneth Francis
- Role: Principal Investigator
- Creds:
- Exp:
- People Analytics @ SpaceX [current]
- Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology @ Brooklyn College [adjunct]
- 4 years designing, implementing, and maintaining people technology tools for organizations
- 3 years designing, implementing, and analyzing psychometric surveys for organizations
Sherif al-Qallawi
- Role: Researcher, Co-author
- Creds:
- Exp:
- Talent Management Analytics @ Mercedes-Benz [current]
- Ph.D. candidate, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
- Post-graduate diploma, Human Resource Management
- 4 years consulting experience focused on survey projects
- 6 years experience in international/cross-culture people operations
Nemo
- Role: Researcher, Co-author
- Exp:
- People Scientist / Researcher
- Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology
- Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology
- 10 years consulting and applied research experience related to organizational science and talent measurement
Saulthorin
- Role: Advisor, Co-author, Product Manager
- Creds:
- Exp:
- People Analytics @ Deloitte Consulting [former]
- Ph.D.Candidate, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
- 10 years consulting experience focused on complex human systems
Part 3 - Proposal Details
3.1 Details
Project Overview:
Validating a DAO contributor health survey is an important step in ensuring survey research conducted within decentralized autonomous organizations reflects the reliable and accurate measurement of their contributors’ health. The talentDAO research guild, with our experience in psychometrics and organizational science, will conduct the validation research necessary to produce such a survey.
A validated contributor health survey will capture psychological factors that predict organizational behaviors related to leadership, engagement, productivity, churn, and governance decisions, among others. The validation research process is as follows:
- Literature review
- Empirically driven survey design [pre-validated]
- Survey deployment and data collection [from other DAOs]
- Statistical Modeling / Item reduction
- Research paper write-up
- Community peer-review
- Publication in the Journal of Decentralized Work
For this grant, talentDAO is committed to delivering items 1 and 2 of this process. Ideally, further grants can be applied for at a later date to continue funding this research. However, talentDAO intends to complete this research with or without continued grant funding.
If OceanDAO would like to be a participant in the validation study, talentDAO will still provide tailored insights for OceanDAO based on their results with or without further funding.
Ultimately, the research will produce a validated DAO contributor health survey that will be made open source for DAOs to utilize.
Further, talentDAO will publish a yearly report of findings using this survey with participating DAOs. This report will be made public and the data from survey results will be listed on the OCEAN marketplace with a profit-sharing mechanism for participating DAOs each year.
Because this will be part of ongoing work from talentDAO with data listed on the OCEAN Marketplace, there is an incentive for talentDAO to build upon this project to continue adding value to the OCEAN protocol. We intend to build out increased compute-to-data functionality over time on these datasets and ultimately, a Web3 native survey system for taking the assessment and receiving results in a secure and decentralized way.
TalentDAO’s goal with this project is to empower the DAO ecosystem with better assessment technology so DAOs can make more informed decisions about their people and ultimately build a more sustainable, thriving ecosystem of DAOs.
3.9 Project Deliverables - Roadmap
Any prior work completed thus far? Details?
No
What is the project roadmap? That is: what are key milestones, and the target date for each milestone. Please make sure that one milestone is about publishing your results, e.g. as a medium blog post.
[This proposal]
- Phase 1: 35 days
- Literature review
- Empirically driven survey design [pre-validated]
[Future work]
- Phase 2: 20-40 days
- Survey deployment and data collection [from other DAOs]
- Statistical Modeling / Item reduction
- Validated Survey produced
- Phase 3: 45 days
- Research paper write-up
- Phase 4: TBD
- Community peer-review
- Publication in the Journal of Decentralized Work
- Phase 5: Ongoing
- Yearly report
- Continuous work
What are the team’s future plans and intentions? Is there maintenance? Possible extensions to the work?
- talentDAO intends to keep the final product open source with a GitHub repo for accessing the survey
- A yearly report to be produced using this survey with participating DAOs
- Data will be listed on the OCEAN marketplace with profit-sharing
- Future work to be done to build upon compute-to-data functionality
- Future work to be done to build a more comprehensive Web3 native survey system for this process
- Future opportunity for Data-NFT integrations
- Future opportunity to integrate into the Decentralized Science (DeSci) ecosystem infrastructure
- Potential extension to include streaming data API