Humorous Management: Using Humor to Enhance Management Effectiveness

Author: Li Wenli
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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, it's as if there's no charm at all. 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 by humanizing their image through humor, they can key their subordinates into cooperation. Using humor for management is humor management, which appropriately applies the power of humor in various aspects of management work, such as personnel, communication, motivation, organizational development, and cultural construction, organically combining the humanity of humor with the seriousness of management. In the right circumstances and at the right time, humor can alleviate the atmosphere, propose suggestions that are more easily accepted, enhance the approachability of managers, and so on. If management is a science that is rigorous and strict, then appropriate humor management is the spice that best reflects humor in management. It helps to better motivate employees, strengthen team cohesion, enhance the closeness among 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.