将幽默付诸实践:理解并构成组织

Putting humour to work: To make sense of and constitute organizations

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT REVIEWS · 2022
被引 20
人大 A-ABS 3

中文导读

通过综述幽默文献,识别出五种语境资源和六种话语实践,构建了一个概念框架,帮助研究者理解人们如何运用幽默来感知、批判并构成组织中的权力关系。

Abstract

Abstract How do people use humour to make sense of and constitute organizations? To understand this, I consider humour as a dynamic discursive practice, through which people (re)produce, complicate and potentially transform relations of power in the workplace. To extend the reach of humour research to this end, I have reviewed and synthesized the literature on humour to identify five contextual resources for agentic sensemaking in the use of humour through which discourses are destabilized and critiqued. I then consider six discursive practices, exercised through humour, that generate power and help constitute organizations. To complete my conceptual framework, I identify and discuss five potential avenues for future research on humour and power at work. I aim to inspire researchers to associate, use and analyse the processes in my framework to generate critically orientated evidence of how people use humour to substantiate organizational/workplace realities. I conclude that humour offers rich potential to better understand how people subjectively constitute organizations in practice.

组织行为权力关系话语实践工作场所幽默