| dc.description.abstract | Humor is an important communication tool for leaders, but it can be both good and bad! Therefore, this study use meta analysis to explores the influence of humorous leadership on various outcome variables, and adds national culture as a moderating variable due to the trend of internationalization. Hope can give leader some advice about making good use of humor when they under difference countries.
In this study, humorous leadership is divided into positive humor and negative humor as independent variables; Also study has 11 dependent variables : Employee job performance, employee job satisfaction, employee withdrawal behavior, employee innovation behavior, employee engagement performance, organizational citizenship behavior, group cohesion, employee satisfaction with the leader, and employee’s perception from the leader; the moderating variables are based on Robins (1991)’s classification of national culture.
In the end, this study use 63 documents and 17087 samples to run meta-analysis. The results show that positive humor leadership is positively correlated with all outcome variables; negative humor is negatively correlated with all outcome variables; and under eastern culture, positive humor leadership and job performance, employee engagement, group cohesion, and employee perceptions from the leader’s relationship are more stronger than western culture, vice versa. Finally, organizations can use training initiatives to cultivate a positive sense of humor for leaders and to help organizations to create a good organizational atmosphere. | en_US |