Mental models and organizational performance: the contribution of neurosciences and psychosciences in the analysis of behavioral

Adapting organizations to the hyper-competitive scenario implies transforming perceptions and creating groups to generate solutions to deal with everyday challenges. This adaptation is achieved through complex sets of mental, motor, perceptual, affective, symbolic, and social operations that influence the performance of individuals. This situation can be analyzed with input from Neurosciences and Psycho Sciences encompassing the understanding of the phenomenon from conscious and unconscious mental processes. This article sought to highlight, through a literature review, how mental models and cognitive structures can influence the action of individuals and how the behaviors involved in this process can affect the performance of organizations. When relating mental models, brain structures, psychological types, and archetypal profiles, it was discovered that the study of behavioral patterns could use an interdisciplinary perspective, which makes it possible to look at the phenomenon, in the organizational context, through a systemic view.