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- Provides a clear, solid and integrated overview of humor at the workplace
- Integrates established theories and findings with new results on the five workplace topics: teams, leadership, negotiation, training, and health
- Broadens the reader’s perspective by integrating various disciplines such as work and organizational psychology, social psychology, communication, and sociology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology (BRIEFSPSYCHOL)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art on the adaptive and maladaptive functions of humor. Humor is inescapable in our daily interactions - also at the work place. Affiliative, self-enhancing, self-deprecating and aggressive humor can all occur at work and have unique and sometimes ambiguous effects. The volume presents humor research on five important workplace topics: teams, leadership, negotiation, learning, and health. It combines and integrates research from a range of fields, including work and organizational psychology, social psychology, communication, linguistics and sociology. In highlighting research gaps and stating future research questions, the book provides a sufficient starting point for further research on humor in relation to the aforementioned topics. For practitioners, recommendations are provided specific to each area.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Hagen, Germany
Tabea Scheel
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SRH University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany
Christine Gockel
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Humor at Work in Teams, Leadership, Negotiations, Learning and Health
Authors: Tabea Scheel, Christine Gockel
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65691-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65689-2Published: 07 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65691-5Published: 04 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-8363
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 143
Topics: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Human Resource Management, Personality and Social Psychology, Cultural Management, Positive Psychology