Laugh out Loud: A User's Guide to Workplace Humor

• Main Authors: Plester, Barbara (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Inkson, Kerr (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Employee health promotion.; Organization.; Planning.; Leadership.; Employee Health and Wellbeing.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

"Laugh Out Loud should be of enormous value to any leader who accepts the challenge of building and maintaining a superb work place that is a joy to be part of and that delivers superlative results." -Tom Peters, international consultant and author of In Search of Excellence (1982), The Ex...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introducing Workplace Humor
• 2. How Humor Works
• 3. Humor and Organization Culture
• 4. Forms of Workplace Humor
• 5. Technological Humor
• 6. Jokers Wild!
• 7. The Light Side of Humor
• 8. The Dark Side of Humor
• 9. Humor Boundaries
• 10. How to Manage Workplace Humor.