Title: Exploring the relationship between humour in the workplace and organisational health: an empirical study: Isfahan Steel Company

Authors: Amir Khodadadi; Hadi Teimouri; Maryam Dezhtaherian

Addresses: Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran ' Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran ' Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran

Abstract: One of the effective components of organisational health is cheerful spirit, and positive emotional relationship that is emerged as confidence, trust, empathy, and friendship among the employees. Humour in the workplace is one type of humorous relationship that can lead to such relationships that decreases inter-organisational conflicts and enhances job motivation. Therefore, it is important to explore humour's relationship with organisational health. This study aims to explore the relationship between humour in the workplace and organisational health. It is applicable from the objective aspect and descriptive field from the methodological aspect. The hypotheses were analysed using a correlational method in a specific time interval. The statistical population included employees of Isfahan Steel Company. Simple random sampling was employed and the research sample was determined to equal to 250 persons according to Morgan's table. The results indicate that there is an acceptable level of relationship between humour in the workplace and organisational health. Among the dimensions of humour, affiliative humour and aggressive humour have the highest relationship with organisational health, respectively.

Keywords: humour in the workplace; affiliative humour; aggressive humour; organisational health.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPM.2023.129548

International Journal of Procurement Management, 2023 Vol.16 No.4, pp.478 - 498

Received: 05 May 2021
Accepted: 12 Jul 2021
Published online: 14 Mar 2023 *

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