A meta‐analysis of positive humor in the workplace

By Jessica Mesmer-Magnus, D. Glew, C. Viswesvaran. 2012

421 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Leader Humor on Subordinate Job Satisfaction (2016, background): “, Dulebohn, Bommer, Liden, Brouer, & Ferris, 2012), and job satisfaction has been one of the more well-studied outcomes of leader humor (Mesmer-Magnus et al., 2012).”
• Supervisor Humor and Employee Outcomes: The Role of Social Distance and Affective Trust in Supervisor (2015, positive): “Second, given that the effects of supervisor humor on employee job performance are not consistent across studies (Mesmer-Magnus et al. 2012), understanding the conditions under which supervisor humor induces more favorable work outcomes is important (Decker 1987).”
• The role of humor usage on creativity, trust and performance in business relationships: An analysis of the salesperson-customer dyad (2017, methodology): “The management literature shows a positive linkage between workplace humor and job performance (Mesmer-Magnus et al., 2012).”