The influence of leader humor on employee innovative behavior has been attracting increasingly more attention from various scholars and enterprises. Based on previous relevant literatures in the ...fields of humor, leadership, and innovation, this study proposes and verifies a model to examine the internal mechanism and boundary condition of the relationship between leader humor, work engagement, supervisor's organizational embodiment, and employee innovative behavior. Specifically, this study introduces work engagement as a mediator in the relationship between leader humor and employee innovative behavior, and supervisor's organizational embodiment as a moderator in the relationship between leader humor and work engagement. Then, this study conducts two separate questionnaire surveys on Chinese employees and their direct supervisors at two different times to collect the sample data. In total, 383 supervisor-subordinate dyads were collected. The results suggest that leader humor can promote employee innovative behavior. Work engagement can partly mediate the influence of leader humor on employee innovative behavior. Supervisor's organizational embodiment of employee can positively moderate the influence of leader humor on work engagement, which in turn ultimately should account for positive increases of employee innovative behavior. The conclusions from the analyses above not only further verify and develop some previous points on leader humor and employee innovation but also derive certain management implications for promoting employee innovative behavior from the perspective of leader humor.
This paper contributes to the literature on geographies of masculinities by examining how young men's (aged 12-18) performances of masculinity through humour was mutually constitutive of and ...constituted by the spaces of the Fusion and Retro youth cafés in the city and suburbs of Cork in the south of Ireland. Research on open access youth provision such as youth clubs, centres and youth cafés have found that they can afford young people the opportunity to 'be themselves', reflecting the ideals of safety and inclusivity that are meant to be sustained in these spaces. Using ethnographic observations, this paper shows that such ideals are never a given as the inequality embedded in gendered performances mean the spaces must be continually (re)produced as inclusive. It contributes to an understanding of youth cafés as micropolitical spaces of becoming that shape and are shaped by negotiations over meanings of gender and masculinity in particular. Furthermore, it advances two new concepts - 'humorous improprieties' and 'humour bombing' - to the performative geographies literature, highlighting two nuanced ways in which young men construct themselves as men in relation to space.
L'humour, défini très largement ici comme toute expression qui vise à faire rire, est-il soumis à un régime juridique particulier ? Il n'existe pas, en droit français ou ailleurs à ma connaissance, ...une disposition exonérant l'humour du champ d'application des normes qui encadrent l'exercice de la liberté d'expression. Certes, des procédés humoristiques apparaissent dans la loi française. En vertu de l'article L122-5 du Code de la propriété intellectuelle, « lorsque l'œuvre a été divulguée, l'auteur ne peut interdire … la parodie, le pastiche et la caricature, compte tenu des lois du genre ». Mais aucune exception humoristique n'est prévue à l'égard des autres restrictions de la liberté d'expression. Cela n'empêche pas le caractère humoristique des propos de jouer un rôle dans l'application de ces restrictions. Pour percevoir ce rôle, il faut préciser quelque peu en quoi consiste une restriction de la liberté d'expression. Il s'agit d'une norme qui attache une sanction à un comportement expressif. Ces comportements expressifs sont principalement de deux sortes. La norme peut viser simplement l'expression d'une signification, par exemple en interdisant de contester l'existence d'un crime contre l'humanité, ou d'en faire l'apologie. Mais la norme peut également viser les expressions qui produisent certaines conséquences. Ainsi, l'article 29 de la loi du 29 juillet 1881 incrimine les propos diffamatoires, c'est-à-dire ceux qui portent atteinte à l'honneur ou à la considération d'autrui…
México vive una de sus mayores crisis en materia de seguridad y de credibilidad en las instituciones, y las clases populares responden con una de las armas que mejor conocen, el humor, para poner en ...entredicho cualquier afán tendencioso de volver hegemónicos atrocidades e intereses creados. A la par de sus contenidos frívolos, los memes son una poderosa arma de opinión pública y de denuncia social que apuntan con su dedo flamígero hacia toda clase de despropósitos y excesos; pero también dan la mano para hermanar a los mexicanos en su orfandad en la confianza en la justicia.
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