Leader Humor as an Interpersonal Resource: Integrating Three Theoretical Perspectives
| Autor: | Dejun Tony Kong, Craig D. Crossley, Cecily D. Cooper |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Organizational citizenship behavior
Operationalization Strategy and Management 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Conservation of resources theory Interpersonal communication Burnout General Business Management and Accounting Stress relief Resource (project management) Social exchange theory Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Business and International Management Psychology Social psychology 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Academy of Management Journal. 61:769-796 |
| ISSN: | 1948-0989 0001-4273 |
| DOI: | 10.5465/amj.2014.0358 |
| Popis: | We integrate theoretical perspectives on humor to test the processes through which leader humor (LH) facilitates subordinate organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). In doing so, we argue that humor is a key interpersonal resource for leaders and derive our comprehensive model with logic from three individual-resource-related theories—social exchange theory, conservation of resources theory, and broaden-and-build theory. Leader-triggered positive emotion and subsequent social exchange, operationalized as leader–member exchange (LMX), functioned as key sequential mechanisms mediating the relationship between LH and subordinate OCBs. LH induced positive emotion in subordinates, which fostered high-quality LMX and, in turn, OCBs. Contrary to expectations, the stress relief explanation of LH was not supported. This research contributes to knowledge of humor in organizations, and particularly LH, as it is the first to establish a link between LH and OCBs and also represents the first integration and concur... |
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