Managing with Humor A Novel Approach to Building Positive Employee Emotions and Psychological Resources /

• Main Authors: Wijewardena, Nilupama (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Samaratunge, Ramanie (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Härtel, Charmine (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Employee health promotion.; Management-Study and teaching.; Employee Health and Wellbeing.; Management Education.

This book focuses on an emerging area of study in management: managerial humor and its impact on employees' outcomes. Drawing from theoretical work that advocates humor as a managerial tool and building on existing theory and documented evidence on humor, the book explores how managers can use...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: What humor can offer managers and organizations
• Chapter 2: Unpacking humor at work
• Chapter 3: Linking managerial humor to employees' emotions and psychological capital
• Chapter 4: Exploring humor in Australian work settings
• Chapter 5: Empirical evidence on mixing humor with management
• Chapter 6: Using humor to promote employees' positive emotions
• Chapter 7: Developing managers' humor skills.