Most of us laugh at something funny multiple times during a typical day. Humor serves
multiple purposes, and although there is a sizable and expanding research literature on the …

Humour, a positive psychology (PP1. 0) construct (Fischer, Carow, & Eger, Mistakes, Errors,
and Failures Across Cultures, Springer, 2020) is a central component of resiliency. Having a …

Purpose–While researchers in other disciplines seek to determine the impact that humour
has in personal interactions, studies of humour in service delivery are lacking. The purpose …

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 …

Dirty work refers to occupations that are viewed by society as physically, socially, or morally
tainted. Using exploratory, semistructured interviews with managers from 18 dirty work …

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 …

Although research has added to our understanding of the positive and negative effects of the
use of humor at work, scholars have paid little attention to characteristics of the humor …

In this paper I discuss the potential role and utility of photographs in exploring the aesthetic
dimension of processes of organizing. Beginning with a review of the growing significance …

This article analyzes the value creation of serious games along five dimensions:(1) product
design,(2) cost optimization,(3) impact on cognition,(4) experienced emotions, and (5) the …

The paper discusses the current state of research and thinking about humor in organizations
and the workplace. Perhaps constrained by rationalist assumptions and conceptions of work …