MANAGERIAL HUMOR AND SUBORDINATE SATISFACTION

Social Behavior and Personality - Tập 15 Số 2 - Trang 225-232 - 1987
Wayne H. Decker1
1Salisbury State Coll, Perdue School of Business, MD, US

Tóm tắt

Humor may be a useful managerial tool, contributing to effectiveness and subordinate satisfaction. A survey explored 290 workers' job satisfaction and impressions of supervisors as a function of subject age, subject sex, supervisor sense of humor, and supervisor sexual humor. Subjects rating their supervisors high in sense of humor reported higher job satisfaction and rated other supervisor qualities higher than did subjects rating their supervisors low in sense of humor. In general, the differences between ratings, given low and high sense of humor supervisors, were greater for younger (under 15) subjects than older. Older females downgraded supervisors who used sexual humor, while younger females and males did not. Future research should attempt to relate humor to objective measures of leader effectiveness.

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Social Behavior and Personality

Tập 15 Số 2

225-232

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