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Using Humor to Promote Employees’ Positive Emotions

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Humor is both ambiguous and complex making it difficult for managers to intentionally use. This Chapter provides the conditions/prerequisites along with recommendations on how managers can use humor effectively at work to bring about positive emotional reactions in employees. The Chapter also provides a future research agenda on humor in the workplace.

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  1. RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Nilupama Wijewardena

  2. Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    Ramanie Samaratunge

  3. University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Charmine Härtel

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Wijewardena, N., Samaratunge, R., Härtel, C. (2019). Using Humor to Promote Employees’ Positive Emotions. In: Managing with Humor. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3636-2_6

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