Humor Management (Using Humor to Improve Management Effectiveness)

Author: Li Wenli (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: In modern society, humor is one of the main charms of everyone, including leaders and managers. Without a sense of humor, you have no charm. Managers who skillfully use humor are more charismatic and easier to gain the and followership of their subordinates. Many examples of successful leaders show that making their image humanized through humor is the key to getting their subordinates to work together with them. Using humor for management is humor management, which appropriately applies the power of humor in various aspects of management work, such as personnel management, communication, motivation, organizational development, and cultural construction, organically combining the humanity of humor with the seriousness of management. In the right situations and at the right time, humor can alleviate the atmosphere, propose suggestions that are easier to accept, enhance the manager's approachability, and so on. If management is a science that is rigorous and disciplined, then appropriate humor management is the spice of management that best reflects humor. It helps to better motivate employees, strengthen team cohesion, enhance the closeness of team members, improve communication efficiency, and alleviate the tension brought by work pressure. If rigor is the norm of management, then humor is the lubricant beyond rigor.