Publications

Publication details [#44147]

Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra. 2006. Humor and leadership style. Humor 19 (2) : 119–138.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | humor | leadership | style | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This article uses data from authentic workplace conversations, to investigate how effective leaders exploit humor as a discursive means to build specific aspects of leadership style.