Successful leaders often use humor to motivate, inspire, and lead. Yet, recent research suggests that the use of humor is risky for leaders. Our review suggests that humor must be morally offensive to people for it to be perceived as funny. This inherent tension between humor and morality implies that the use of humor can sometimes act as a signal of acceptable moral standards in organizations, where a leader’s use of humor carries significant risks because of the norm-violating message it sends to subordinates, or it can even be dangerous in extreme cases. We conclude the paper by offering future research directions on the study of workplace humor.

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组织中的幽默和道德

成功的领导者经常使用幽默来激励、启发和领导。然而，最近的研究表明，使用幽默对于领导者来说是有风险的。我们的评论表明，幽默必须在道德上冒犯人们，才能被认为是有趣的。幽默与道德之间的这种内在张力意味着，幽默的使用有时可以作为组织中可接受的道德标准的信号，在组织中，领导者使用幽默会带来重大风险，因为它向下属传递了违反规范的信息，或者它可以在极端情况下甚至是危险的。我们通过提供工作场所幽默研究的未来研究方向来结束本文。