Just Joking Around? Employee Humor Expression As An Ingratiatory Behavior
By Cecily D. Cooper. 2005
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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology
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- The Wheel Model of humor: Humor events and affect in organizations (2012, background): “…1992), such as coping, stress-relief, or as a defense mechanism (e.g. Freud, 1928, 1960), bonding and cohesiveness (Vinton, 1989), ingratiation (Cooper, 2005), power, control, or aggression (e.g. Coser, 1960; Davies, 1990; Holmes, 2000), and the subversion of power (Collinson, 1988; Holmes and…”
- Elucidating the bonds of workplace humor: A relational process model (2008, background): “Humor’s effect in the aforementioned leader–member relationships may have resulted partly from ingratiation processes (Cooper, 2005) but this argument is also limited in that ingratiation processes cannot explain all humor interactions shared between leaders and their employees.”
- Supervisor Humor and Employee Outcomes: The Role of Social Distance and Affective Trust in Supervisor (2015, unknown): “Humor refers to any event that is shared by a person with another individual (i.e., a target), intending to amuse the target, and that the target perceives the act as intentional (Cooper 2005).”
- The Impact of Leader Humor on Subordinate Job Satisfaction (2016, background): “Such behavior might be viewed as an inappropriate use of time, a distraction (Avolio et al., 1999), or even a misguided attempt by the leader to ingratiate himself or herself (Cooper, 2005).”
- Self-presentation style in job interviews: the role of personality and culture (2013, background): “These include opinion conformity and flattery (Ellis et al., 2002), as well as humor (Cooper, 2005).”
- A meta‐analysis of positive humor in the workplace (2012, background): “For example, Southwest Airlines screens employees for a light-hearted attitude, citing significant benefits including greater employee camaraderie and performance as well Positive humor in the workplace as enhanced customer satisfaction (Cooper, 2005, 2008; O’Reilly and Pfeffer, 1995).”
- The role of humor usage on creativity, trust and performance in business relationships: An analysis of the salesperson-customer dyad (2017, background): “relationships (Cooper, 2005; Lehmann-Willenbrock & Allen, 2014), which helps to convey that a salesperson is willing to display benevolence toward his or her customers.”