Fostering Human-Agent Team Leadership by Leveraging Human Teaming Principles

This paper develops a framework for human-agent team leadership. Specifically, due to the addition of artificial intelligence to teams, the behavioral functions of leaders need to be critically examined to determine their fit with the future of human-agent teamwork. This paper identifies these functional behaviors as resource management behaviors and information behaviors based on past research in teamwork. These behaviors are reviewed within the context of human-human teamwork to define human-oriented leadership behaviors. Based on the review of human-human teamwork along with recent research in human-agent teamwork, an adaptable framework is created for leadership behaviors that will help guide human leaders in human-agent teams. This framework provides a foundation for future human-agent teams to empower and guide human leaders of human-agent teams who need to mediate the integration of agents alongside humans.