Titlebook: Laugh out Loud: A User’s Guide to Workplace Humor; Barbara Plester,Kerr Inkson Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2

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Humor Cultures,The humor theories we outlined in Chap. . are generic: they apply to all humor, even though we illustrated them mainly with examples from workplaces. In this book, however, we have a special interest in . humor, the forms of humor most commonly used in our workplaces.

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Jokers Wild!,If you ask people in the Bytes Company, ‘who is the ‘joker’ round here?’ they all give the same answer, point to the same man: Mac.

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Barbara Plester,Kerr InksonPresents research knowledge of the nature, practice and management of humor in an accessible way to management practitioners and other organizational staff.Raises the consciousness and improves the pr

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Doing Humor, written, for example emails, attachments and display board notices; it can be dramatized, for example mimicry, parody, ritual and acted-out storytelling; it can be pictorial, for example photoshopped pictures, drawings and cartoons; and it can be physical, for example practical jokes and horseplay.

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Technological Humor,they can connect with the rest of their organization, indeed, if they wish, with much of the rest of the world, enabling them to do more complex jobs more easily and faster. Technology now enables us to transcend the simple desk-chair-office-colleagues settings in which business has traditionally be

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Managing Humor,worst that humor can do. At the end of each chapter except the first one we have provided ‘takeaways’—bite-sized pieces of advice about what organizational members, particularly managers, can do to ‘get it right’ in relation to humor. Here, we try to consolidate our material.

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