Simulating Work Teams Using MBTI Agents

Luiz Fernando Braz, Cristina Maria D. Antona Bachert, Jaime Simão Sichman

Abstract: The study of human behavior in organizational environments has been the focus of researchers who seek to identify factors that may influence high-performance team building. In this context, agent-based simulations have been used to model artificial agents with human personality profiles based on the MBTI model. This work aimed to investigate whether MBTI personality types and different scenarios could influence the teams’ outcomes, observing how agents’ behaviors might impact the overall group performance. The results demonstrated that the scenario can decisively impact agent teams’ performance, and certain personality type characteristics also influence these results.