...Jessica Mesmer-Magnus; Rebecca Guidice; Martha Andrews; Robert Oechslin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how employees’ perceptions of their supervisor’s use of four types of humour relate to employee job satisfaction, organisational pride, organisational commitment and self-esteem...

... business! Entrepreneurialism Leadership Humour Managers Dave Delaney is the President and a founder of the Lancer Insurance Company. Lancer has revenues of about $300 million and five hundred employees. In 1982, at the age of 28, Dave and his brother Tim raised $4 million in a private...

...Gundars E. Kaupins This article compares the humour used in university and corporate training programmes and discusses survey implications. Based on a survey of 183 university business professors and 243 corporate trainers, both groups were found to use similar types of humour (e.g. short stories...