The Mixed Blessing of Leader Sense of Humor: Examining Costs and Benefits

By Kai Chi Yam, Michael S Christian, Wu Wei, Zhenyu Liao, Jared Nai. 2017

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Workplace humor is ubiquitous, yet scholars know little about how it affects employees’ behaviors in organizations. We draw on an emerging psychological theory of humor—benign violation theory—to s...

Subfields: Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Humor, Comedy, and Consumer Behavior (2018, background): “work when their bosses have a better sense of humor (Yam et al. 2017).”