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Laugh out loud: a user's guide to workplace humor

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Palgrave Macmillan 2019 SingaporeDescription: x, 186 p. Includes illustrations, references and indexISBN:
  • 9789811302824
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.38 P5L2
Summary: This book is the first-ever authoritative work on the use and management of humour in the workplace. It is a practical guide for everyone involved: the humorists (‘jokers’), the targets (sometimes ‘victims’), the observers (‘audience’) and most of all the managers who have to ‘set the tone’ and encourage, control and manage humour. Humour is part and parcel of every workplace. However, while it usually demonstrates and fosters a united, happy workforce, it can at times be deeply damaging and divisive. The authors – academics with vast organizational experience and a research-based understanding of humour at work – bring together state-of-the-art knowledge of the topic, making it fun, accessible and readable for all humour participants. The topics include how humour works, humour cultures in organizations, the many forms of workplace humour and their pros and cons, humour rituals at work, digital humour, workplace jokers, the 21st-century issue of ‘political correctness’, and both the ‘bright side’ of humour (assisting positive cultures, making work ‘fun’) and its ‘dark side’ (where humour offends and humiliates). With over 60 ‘real-life’ illustrative stories of workplace humour, a self-completion questionnaire to measure the Humor Climate in your organization, end-of-chapter ‘takeaways’ and an end-of-book summary advocating ‘best practice’, the book is a ‘fun’, how-to-do-it guide that will both inform and entertain. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9789811302824
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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.

This book is the first-ever authoritative work on the use and management of humour in the workplace. It is a practical guide for everyone involved: the humorists (‘jokers’), the targets (sometimes ‘victims’), the observers (‘audience’) and most of all the managers who have to ‘set the tone’ and encourage, control and manage humour. Humour is part and parcel of every workplace. However, while it usually demonstrates and fosters a united, happy workforce, it can at times be deeply damaging and divisive. The authors – academics with vast organizational experience and a research-based understanding of humour at work – bring together state-of-the-art knowledge of the topic, making it fun, accessible and readable for all humour participants. The topics include how humour works, humour cultures in organizations, the many forms of workplace humour and their pros and cons, humour rituals at work, digital humour, workplace jokers, the 21st-century issue of ‘political correctness’, and both the ‘bright side’ of humour (assisting positive cultures, making work ‘fun’) and its ‘dark side’ (where humour offends and humiliates). With over 60 ‘real-life’ illustrative stories of workplace humour, a self-completion questionnaire to measure the Humor Climate in your organization, end-of-chapter ‘takeaways’ and an end-of-book summary advocating ‘best practice’, the book is a ‘fun’, how-to-do-it guide that will both inform and entertain.

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9789811302824

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