Organizational Humor: A Foundation for Future Scholarship, a Review, and a Call to Action

CD Cooper, ME Schweitzer - Annual Review of Organizational …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Humor is a fundamental managerial tool that can help managers communicate, build trust,
and promote cooperation. Humor, however, is complex, and humor scholarship has …

Implications of Social Media for a Changing Work Landscape

TS Behrend, DM Ravid, S Thapa - Annual review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
More than half of the global population now uses social media. This technological ubiquity
has transformed the way that individuals communicate and engage with the world around …

[HTML][HTML] Balancing the radical and the incremental: CEO affiliative humor and organizational ambidexterity

RJ Campbell, CE Short, SD Graffin - Research Policy, 2025 - Elsevier
Organizational ambidexterity is positively associated with firm performance. Yet, it is difficult
for CEOs to implement ambidextrous strategies as the radical and incremental innovations …

Towards Multimodal Prediction of Spontaneous Humor: A Novel Dataset and First Results

L Christ, S Amiriparian, A Kathan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Humor is a substantial element of human social behavior, affect, and cognition. Its automatic
understanding can facilitate a more naturalistic human-AI interaction. Current methods of …

Think funny, think female: The benefits of humor for women's influence in the digital age

E Miron-Spektor, JB Bear, E Eliav - Academy of Management …, 2023 - journals.aom.org
Women—so the stereotype goes—are not funny. Indeed, some evidence indicates that
using humor in presentations may even be detrimental to women, hindering their perceived …

Understanding the role of gender in humor expression: Directions for future scholarship

JB Bear, E Miron-Spektor - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Humor expression is a potent interpersonal and professional communication tool, conveying
intelligence and competence. This review examines the role of gender in outcomes of humor …

Why so serious? The effects of humour on creativity and innovation

WG Biemans, EKRE Huizingh - Creativity and Innovation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Humour is an integral part of human interactions, but it is not clear how it contributes to
creativity in innovation. This paper provides new insights into the emerging literature about …

[HTML][HTML] Friend or Fiend? Disentangling Upward Humor's (De) Stabilizing Effects on Hierarchies

J Gloor, N Van Quaquebeke, M Seong… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Humor research in organizations focuses on leaders' humor, but we know far less about
followers' humor. Here, we review and synthesize the scattered work on this “upward …

Faking it with the boss's jokes? Leader humor quantity, follower surface acting, and power distance

X Hu, MR Parke, RS Peterson… - Academy of Management …, 2024 - journals.aom.org
Most scholarly work concludes that leader humor positively affects emotional outcomes for
followers. However, two interrelated issues with past research make this view incomplete:(a) …

[HTML][HTML] Cheap talk? Follower sarcasm reduces leader overpay by increasing accountability

JLP Gloor - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Leaders often engage in costly, self-interested behaviors when they have the power and
discretion to do so. Because followers are well-positioned to reduce these behaviors, I test …