HUMOUR STYLES IN THE WORKPLACE

Iasmina Iosim, Anka Pascariu, Gabriela Popescu, Diana Marin, Cristina Babcsanyi

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Humour is known to help relational outcomes: specifically, humour styles (constructive / positive versus negative) and management may play an important role. This study aims at identifying the effects of humour styles on manager – employee relationships. This study relies on previous studies on humour effects in fields such as psychology and management. While constructive / positive humour is shown to have positive effects on manager – employee relationship, a different pattern is found for negative / offensive humour. This study shows that managers should attend training courses about the use of humour in the workplace. This study brings about an insight into how to use humour in a manager – employee relationship by activating humour in an affiliative or self-enhancing manner, instead of self-defeating or aggressive ways. No previous study has examined this topic in a Romanian context so far, to the author’s knowledge.

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humour style; workplace; manager; employee

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