Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2022/Humour, leadership, and work

Wording of title of topic
Heya, love how you have all the points already listed out even though it is just the early stages if your page. I do suggest though that you just use " Humour, leadership and work: How does humour influence workplace motivation?" rather than "HUMOUR, leadership, and work: HOW does Humour influence workplace motivation?" Since it looks a bit neater and more presentable. Totally understandable if you want to do your title like that to attract more attention. CNK.20 (discuss • contribs) 10:29, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi there, your page is very clear and set out very well, congratulations! I would love to see maybe how humour develops? This would be beneficial in the history section as humour is developed before one joins a workplace environment. --GeorgiaFairweather (discuss • contribs) 10:59, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

General tips
Hi Braedy, just providing some feedback as per your discussion forum request. I noticed that all but your first section are part of the second section (humour, leadership and work), even your conclusion, and just thought it might look a bit better overall and on your contents section if you make some of them separate, rather than having only 2 main sections. I realise you're obviously still working on it but also thought I would suggest adding a few case studies and other features throughout. Lastly my other advice is to have a look at your links down the bottom because the see also ones need to be properly formatted and the other links section need to include the name of the website (whether it is a Youtube link or otherwise, etc.). Hope that helps! Ana028 (discuss • contribs) 00:01, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Just some feedback
Hey Braedy, just some feed back. Overall your book topic looks like its coming along quite well! The layout of the page is easy to follow, just some paragraphs are quite large and have slight grammatical errors, particularly in The Contemporary History paragraph. Just rereading and making sure sentences are capitalised and aren't to lengthy. --U3230861 (discuss • contribs) 02:36, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Hello, as I was reading through this chapter - I found it really interesting how a sense of humor questionnaire existed. I never really gave humor too much thought before but reading how that questionnaire is broken down into 3 categories in order to interpret humor intrigued me to try it myself or on those around me. I appreciate how you have written in a way that is easy to follow along and breaking down concepts is much more easy to digest. Feedback regarding writing: I think there are some grammatical errors every now and then and some statements require citations. Other than that I really enjoyed reading this chapter. --Ishiuc (discuss • contribs) 14:00, 16 October 2023 (GMT-5)

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-- Jtneill - Talk - c 10:46, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Humor in the workplace
Hi, Regarding your questions on Canvas, I have found that, depending on the organisation, humour can be used well or poorly. I have worked in a place where the boss used humour to make fun of people who were not around - they weren't rude or terribly mean, but they did make fun of the men (behind their backs to the women) for clogging up the toilet. In other organisations, humour has been used between the boss and the managers, but humour was only used in the presence of people of equal status (e.g., when all of the executives are together), and humour was not used in front of people lower down on the workplace ladder.

In the second organisation mentioned, humour was used to lighten the mood, motivate people to continue, or to just pass the time - sometimes we would be working together from 6pm-1am so humour was a welcomed and necessary after a long day (e.g., for me at uni) and then to continue working until the early hours of the morning.

I think humour needs to be used wisely, as in the second place, we happily made fun of ourselves and each other and it did not change any dynamics or make us feel uncomfortable. Whereas in the first example, it made me feel a little uncomfortable knowing the boss spoke about their employees behind their back in such a way. Of course the boss will talk about you but it definitely made me rethink how much I should talk to the others just in case things ended up with the boss. We weren't on an even playing field, and there was 1 boss, and then everyone else. At the second place, the execs 1) made fun of themselves as well as each other, and 2) only spoke about the people present - sometimes we spoke about others (e.g., X is currently talking with the venue and we will know more later this week) but we didn't use other people as the butt of our jokes.

Hope this helps! U3216256 (discuss • contribs) 06:16, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:48, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

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