This second edition of the best-selling textbook on Work Motivation in Organizational
Behavior provides an update of the critical analysis of the scientific literature on this topic …

Executive Overview Humor is a common element of human interaction and therefore has an
impact on work groups and organizations. Despite this observation, managers often fail to …

A number of studies have demonstrated that humor can impact both horizontal and vertical
relationships in organizations, but little is known about the interpersonal processes …

This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony,
deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and …

Previous research on ingratiation in organizations has identified various categories of
ingratiatory behaviors. However, these studies have failed to mention or investigate the …

This article examines the popular trend among management academics, consultants, and
practitioners of prescribing “cultures of fun” to enhance productivity. This management …

The'personal'was once something to be put to one side in the work place: a'professional
manner'entailed the suppression of private life and feelings. Now many large corporations …

Despite the importance of groups in the workplace and the demand from workers for a fun
work environment, there is no model that explains how successful organizational humor can …

How do people use humour to make sense of and constitute organizations? To understand
this, I consider humour as a dynamic discursive practice, through which people (re) produce …

This book offers a contemporary psychodynamic view of organizational life.[The author]
stresses the unconscious dimensions of hierarchic and other work relationships in …