| Summary: | 碩士 === 大同大學 === 事業經營學系(所) === 100 === This study focuses on the relationship between the leader’s style of humor delivery, organizational climate, and the follower’s creativity. A leader’s style of humor delivery will impact the relationship between the leader and his/her followers and will further influence the organizational climate. When the organizational climate is positive to the full, it can inspire employees and raise their positive emotions. This study will explore the relationship by setting the leader’s style of humor delivery as an independent variable, organizational climate as an intervening variable, and the employee’s creativity as a dependent variable.
This research has three questions: (1) What is the relationship between the leader’s style of humor delivery and organization climate? (2) What is the relationship between organization climate and follower’s creativity? (3) Does leader’s style of humor delivery have impact on follower’s creativity? According to the literature review, this study presents three hypotheses. The research found that (1) leader’s style of humor delivery have a positive and statistically significant relationship with the organization climate；(2) the self-deprecating style has a positive and statistically significant relationship with the organization climate；(3) the other-deprecating style has a negative and statistically significant relationship with the organization climate；(4) A leader’s use of a nonsense style of humor delivery will have a more positive effect on organization climate than an other-deprecating style of humor delivery；(5) all dimensions of organization climate(standard and identity, responsibility and reward, risk taking, warmth and support) have a positive and statistically significant relationship with follower’s creativity.；(6) the other-deprecating style has a negative impact on follower’s creativity without statistically significant。
Therefore, leader should consciously encourage a climate of reciprocal humor so that the managerial monopoly on joking behavior will not eliminate humor as a means of reducing tension and expressing frustrations less risky manner by rank-and-file employee. Because of the research shows that the higher humor of leader has, the higher support perception of the work environment the employee perceives. Organization climate refers to employee perceptions of their work environment and it will influence the operation of organization. Also a positive organization climate can bring good creativity. Therefore, leader must understand how to apply organization climate to improve follower’s creativity. Finally, leader must understand which style of humor has positive or negative impact on follower’s creativity. Because there is not all the kind of style has positive relevance with creativity.
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