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

Scheel, Tabea, Gockel, Christine

ISBN 10: 3319656899 / ISBN 13: 9783319656892

Published by Springer, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Humor at Work in Teams, Leadership, Negotiations, Learning and Health (SpringerBriefs in Psychology)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319656899
• ISBN 13: 9783319656892
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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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

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.