Humor 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, you have no charm. Managers who skillfully use humor are more charismatic leaders and are easier to gain the and followership of their subordinates. Many examples of successful leaders show that by making their own image humanized through humor, they can achieve unity and cooperation with their subordinates. 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 appropriate situations and timing, humor can alleviate the atmosphere, propose suggestions that are easier to accept, 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, enhance team cohesion, strengthen 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.