The effect of leader’s affiliative and aggressive humor toward employee’s emotion and job performance

Abstract

The study purposes for examining the effect of two kinds of different humor in leadership toward employee emotion and performance Since leaders are the role model for employees we assumed that leaders as giver and employees will become the receiver as they will be affected psychologically This situation will eventually shape their behavior and further affect their work performance in organization We covered our study by examining the relationship of affiliative humor toward leader triggered positive emotion and aggressive humor toward leader triggered negative emotion The result showed that both relationships positively related Furthermore emotional regulation moderates the effect of aggressive humor toward leader triggered positive emotion Next based on leader triggered emotion employee will response through psychological state either they will feel alive or exhausted After that since this psychological state is showed up this will take effect on how employees behaved This study showed that emotional vitality mediates the positive relationship of leader triggered negative emotion to job performance Following by emotional exhaustion doesn’t mediates the relationship of leader triggered negative emotion to job performance Based on current study to improve employees job performance leaders might consider to use humor as their communication tactics with employees that the use of humor to let employees more happy in workplace

Date of Award	2019
Original language	English
Supervisor	Hsi-An Shih (Supervisor)