AUTHOR=Li Daiheng , Liu Pan , Li Shuang , He Jieya TITLE=I will speak up if I feel energetic: Effects of supervisor humor on employee voice JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=13 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.956499 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.956499 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Extant literature on supervisor humor predominantly documents its beneficial effects on the organization, but its dark side receives little attention. Drawing on ego depletion theory, we proposed a conceptual model to examine the effects of two interpersonal types of supervisor humor (i.e., affiliative humor and aggressive humor) on employee voice. An empirical study with a sample covering 257 employees in China indicated that supervisor aggressive humor was negatively related to voice behaviors