Just Joking Around? Employee Humor Expression As An Ingratiatory Behavior
提出幽默是一种职场讨好行为，整合了讨好与幽默研究，分析幽默如何影响目标对象及其作为讨好策略的效果决定因素与结果。
Previous research on ingratiation in organizations has identified various categories of ingratiatory behaviors. However, these studies have failed to mention or investigate the ingratiatory power of humor. I integrate past research on ingratiation with research on humor in organizations to propose humor as a type of ingratiatory behavior in the workplace. I describe how humor affects targets, including determinants of humor's effectiveness as an ingratiation strategy, and various outcomes of humor as an ingratiation tactic.