Humor at Work in Teams, Leadership, Negotiations, Learning and Health (SpringerBriefs in Psychology) - Softcover

Scheel, Tabea; Gockel, Christine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3319656899 ISBN 13: 9783319656892

Publisher: Springer, 2017

Synopsis

Provides a clear, solid and integrated overview of humor at the workplace

Integrates established theories and findings with new results on the five workplace topics: teams, leadership, negotiation, training, and health

Broadens the reader’s perspective by integrating various disciplines such as work and organizational psychology, social psychology, communication, and sociology

About this title

From the Back Cover

This book provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art on the adaptive and maladaptive functions of humor. Humor is inescapable in our daily interactions - also at the work place. Affiliative, self-enhancing, self-deprecating and aggressive humor can all occur at work and have unique and sometimes ambiguous effects. The volume presents humor research on five important workplace topics: teams, leadership, negotiation, learning, and health. It combines and integrates research from a range of fields, including work and organizational psychology, social psychology, communication, linguistics and sociology. In highlighting research gaps and stating future research questions, the book provides a sufficient starting point for further research on humor in relation to the aforementioned topics. For practitioners, recommendations are provided specific to each area.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319656899
• ISBN 13: 9783319656892
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 155