An Empirical Study on the Relationship between a Sense of Humor and Management and Organizational Behavior = An Empirical Study on the Relationship between a Sense of Humor and Management and Organizational Behavior

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Recently, a sense of humor has been emerging as a crucial factor in strategic management. In practice, many academic practitioners have been greatly interested in the relationship between humor, and management and organizational Behavior. Through various surveys, this paper confirms the relationship between the use of humor and the characteristics of leaders. The target population consisted of 170 managers from several different countries. The paper basically analysed the link between the leader`s various characteristics and the use of humor based on causality and regression analysis. The conclusive result illustrates that its explanatory power is very low, but three independent variables including age, laissez faire (free reign) leadership and Asian nationality in the group are significant in a statistical point of view. These independent variables were meaningful in business management perspectives.