Humor is a fundamental managerial tool that can help managers communicate, build trust, and promote cooperation. Humor, however, is complex, and humor scholarship has identified both benefits and risks of using humor for leaders, employees, and organizations. Although humor is both pervasive and impactful in organizations, humor scholarship is vastly under-represented relative to its managerial relevance and impact in leading management journals. In this review, we build on scholarship in the psychology, communication, and management literatures to define humor, introduce a framework and nomenclature for studying humor, and distinguish organizational humor from social humor. We identify open questions worthy of scholarly attention and barriers that have likely limited the publication of humor scholarship in management journals. We conclude with a call to action to guide future research in organizational humor.

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组织幽默：未来奖学金的基础、回顾和行动呼吁


幽默是一种基本的管理工具，可以帮助管理者沟通、建立信任和促进合作。然而，幽默是复杂的，幽默学术研究已经确定了对领导者、员工和组织使用幽默的好处和风险。尽管幽默在组织中既普遍又有影响力，但相对于其管理相关性和影响力，幽默学术在领先的管理期刊中的代表性大大不足。在这篇综述中，我们以心理学、传播学和管理学文献的学术研究为基础来定义幽默，引入了研究幽默的框架和命名法，并将组织幽默与社会幽默区分开来。我们确定了值得学术关注的开放性问题和可能限制了幽默学术研究在管理期刊上发表的障碍。最后，我们呼吁采取行动，以指导未来的组织幽默研究。