Overview
- Provides compelling evidence on the importance of workplace humor for employees’ efficiency and well-being
- Offers practical recommendations on how humor can be used as a tool for managing employee emotions
- Puts forward a model of skills that can be used in training programs to develop managers’ humor skills
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- managerial humor
- workplace humor
- employee emotions
- work environment
- employee wellbeing
- work stress
- employee satisfaction
- psychological resources
- job performance
- emotions at work
- positive psychology
- negative humor
- workplace harassment
- human resource management
- managerial humour
- workplace humour
- negative humour
About this book
First, the book develops a theoretical framework for humor events at work and provides evidence-based findings on employees’ humor behavior within actual work contexts. Second, it explores how humor can be used to positively impact employees’ emotional states at work. In doing so, the book takes a multidisciplinary approach to humor by integrating theory and findings from the emotions literature, Positive Organizational Behavior, and Broaden and Build Theory into the humor literature.
The book sheds new light on the consequences of managers’ use of humor for employees. It provides practical guidelines on how managers can use humor as an effective tool at work to bring about desired employee outcomes.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ramanie Samaratunge is an Associate Professor at the Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia. She is an internationally renowned management scholar with 30 years of experience working in the public and private sector, including consultancies in Australia and Asia. Her research interests include international management, international public policy and management, cross-cultural management, CSR, entrepreneurship and immigrants in Australia.
Charmine Härtel is Chair of Occupational Health and Work Psychology at the University of Queensland Business School, Australia. She is a leading expert in the areas of work-related emotions and wellbeing, workforce diversity and inclusion, HRM innovation, andhealth and safety.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing with Humor
Book Subtitle: A Novel Approach to Building Positive Employee Emotions and Psychological Resources
Authors: Nilupama Wijewardena, Ramanie Samaratunge, Charmine Härtel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3636-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3635-5Published: 16 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3636-2Published: 01 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 153
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour