Gender Differences and Perceived Efficacy of Humor Styles in the Workplace

Jones, Gwen E.; Bear, Stephen

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“…Humorous leadership is a communication strategy that uses verbal and nonverbal cues to elicit a favorable affective or cognitive response from followers (Jones and Bear, 2018). Humorous leaders intend to entertain their followers by sharing funny or happy events with them (Song et al ., 2023), which helps break the work’s monotony (Mao et al ., 2017).…”

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Is leader humor a discursive resource for predicting innovative behavior? Examining the role of pro-social motivation and personal need for structure in hospitality industry

Khattak,

Irshad,

Um-e-Rubbab

2024

LODJ

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PurposeThis research aims to extend the research on humorous leadership and the hospitality industry by using the theoretical framework of affective events theory (AET). This research aims to close this gap by recognizing that leaders' humor may inspire pro-social motivation in tourism workers and can harness the ability of employees to offer innovative ideas. The effect of leaders' humor on employees’ pro-social motivation is moderated by the personal need for structure (PNS).Design/methodology/approachA multi-source time-lagged design was employed in this research. The researchers used survey instruments to collect data from frontline employees and their immediate supervisors working in Pakistan’s two- to five-star hotels. The current study considers 279 useable responses and tested them through Hayes process macros.FindingsResults show that humorous leadership has a significant direct impact on the innovative work behavior (IWB) of hotel employees. Pro-social motivation significantly mediates the relationship between humorous leadership and IWB. Further, the PNS significantly buffers the relationship between humorous leadership and pro-social motivation.Practical implicationsFindings are vital for hotel managers to adopt a more flexible leadership style to promote the pro-social motivation and IWBs of hotel employees.Originality/valueThis is one of the first studies to use pro-social motivation to explain the relationship between humorous leadership and creative work behaviors. Employees' individual needs for structure have also been utilized as a novel boundary condition. The results are essential for hotel managers to adopt a more adaptable leadership style to encourage the staff’s pro-social motivation and creative work behaviors.

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Is leader humor a discursive resource for predicting innovative behavior? Examining the role of pro-social motivation and personal need for structure in hospitality industry

Khattak,

Irshad,

Um-e-Rubbab

2024

LODJ

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“…Second, on the other side, humor has been found to bear importance in creativity and innovation activities and processes of firms (Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, Atta-Owusu, & Oikarinen. 2016;Jones & Bear, 2018;Lussier, Grégoire, & Vachon, 2017). However, these findings are not completely conclusive-they often focus on creativity (the front-end of innovation), and they tend to lack connection to international activity.…”

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The contradictory role of humor in international competitiveness and innovativeness

Yang

Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen

Oikarinen

2019

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This study explores the relationships among the use of different types of humor (affiliative, aggressive, reframing, and coping humor)—both among immediate co-workers (“ingroup”), and with actors external to the firm (“outgroup”), international competitiveness, as well as innovativeness. An exploratory study based on survey data suggests that humor, when connections exist, is negatively related to international competitive potential and performance. Whether or not these negative effects emerge, depends on with whom and which type of humor is used. However, the situation is not straightforward: innovativeness is positively related to international competitiveness, and to innovativeness, humor types relate in different ways, some positive, some negative. Overall, humor seems to play a relevant, but challenging-to-manage role especially in settings where borders—organizational or national—are crossed: Humor that works as a lubricant for innovation processes, does not necessarily work directly in advancing international competitiveness.

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Leading through affiliation: the effect of humor type and gender on likelihood of being perceived as a leader

Gheorghe

Curşeu

2022

Curr Psychol

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Gender Differences and Perceived Efficacy of Humor Styles in the Workplace

Cited by 3 publications

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Is leader humor a discursive resource for predicting innovative behavior? Examining the role of pro-social motivation and personal need for structure in hospitality industry

Is leader humor a discursive resource for predicting innovative behavior? Examining the role of pro-social motivation and personal need for structure in hospitality industry

The contradictory role of humor in international competitiveness and innovativeness

Leading through affiliation: the effect of humor type and gender on likelihood of being perceived as a leader

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