Measuring the Performance of Cross-Functional Multidisciplinary Teams Using an Epistemic Game: Impact of Team Cohesion and Personality

Job performance of multidisciplinary cross-functional teams are characterised by the ability of individual team members' disposition in completing the task within a given resource constraint. Prior research have established linkages between a team's personality and job performance where nature of task being a moderating factor. Majority of the studies conducted in this area have looked at job performance as a rating coded by an instructor(s) and only a few have looked at objective measures arising out of an experimental setup. In this study we have used a proprietary business simulation game designed by one of the authors and measured job performance and team cohesion using epistemic network analysis.