Humor at Work in Teams, Leadership, Negotiations, Learning and Health (SpringerBriefs in Psychology) - Softcover

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Tabea Scheel is a professor of work and organizational psychology at Europa-Universität Flensburg. She earned her doctorate from the University of Leipzig and has held academic positions at institutions including Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, and the University of Vienna. Tabea is an alumni of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. Her research focuses on new ways of working, workplace well-being, leadership, humor, and pro-environmental behavior. Beyond academia, she is a certified coach and has worked as a behavioral and communication trainer since 2006. Her teaching emphasizes organizational behavior, well-being at work and workplace analysis.

Christine Gockel works as a professor of psychology, focusing on organizational psychology at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin). She earned her Ph.D. in social and personality psychology from Michigan State University and has held academic positions in Germany and Switzerland. Her research explores how humor, psychological safety, and transactive memory systems contribute to team performance and long-term viability. In addition to her academic work, she has extensive experience coaching leaders and teams, particularly in hybrid and virtual environments. Her teaching focuses on leadership, team dynamics, and intercultural collaboration.

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This book provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art on the adaptive and maladaptive functions of humor. Humor is inescapable in our daily interactions - also at the work place. Affiliative, self-enhancing, self-deprecating and aggressive humor can all occur at work and have unique and sometimes ambiguous effects. The volume presents humor research on five important workplace topics: teams, leadership, negotiation, learning, and health. It combines and integrates research from a range of fields, including work and organizational psychology, social psychology, communication, linguistics and sociology. In highlighting research gaps and stating future research questions, the book provides a sufficient starting point for further research on humor in relation to the aforementioned topics. For practitioners, recommendations are provided specific to each area.