Managing Humour
批判分析功能主义对工作场所幽默研究的影响，探讨幽默如何通过权力关系被再生产，以及管理控制如何通过玩笑关系实现，并指出压制和制造幽默两种策略看似对立却可能重叠。
This article examines the under‐explored relationship between humour, power and management. Critically analysing the functionalist influence on workplace humour studies, it addresses the reproduction of humour through power relations and of management control through joking relations. In particular, the following argument considers how, in different social and organizational contexts, the management of humour is implemented through the practices of suppression and manufacture. The article concludes that, although apparently opposing, these two managerial control strategies in some cases may also overlap. Attempts to manufacture humour can actually suppress it, while the suppression of jocularity may also lead to its resurgence.