Transforming with levity: humor, leadership, and follower attitudes

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Supervisor Humor and Employee Outcomes: The Role of Social Distance and Affective Trust in Supervisor (2015, unknown): “Second, supervisors who use adaptive humor (e.g., affiliative humor) are possibly more likely to be trusted by their subordinates (Hampes 1999; Hughes and Avey 2009).”
A Critical Assessment of Charismatic—Transformational Leadership Research: Back to the Drawing Board? (2013, background): “…leader behavior, leader use of humor was associated with stronger relationships with trust, identification, affective commitment, and job satisfaction (Hughes & Avey, 2009), whereas leader contingent reward was associated with weaker relationships with leaderrated performance and job satisfaction…”
Empowering leadership and the influence of a humorous work climate on service employees' creativity and innovative behaviour in frontline service jobs (2011, background): “Moreover, it seems that the literature most often has studied humour in relationship to team or group effectiveness (Romero and Pescosolido, 2008) leadership style and performance (Hughes and Avey, 2008) or product innovation (Ekvall, 1996).”
Applying transformational leadership theory to coaching research in youth sport: A systematic literature review (2016, background): “For instance, this review highlighted that leaders’ use of humour enhanced the effectiveness of transformational leaders’ behaviours (Hughes & Avey, 2009).”