"It only hurts when I laugh"

Our study examines the impacts on workers when organisational humour is repeated, sustained, dominating, and potentially harmful, and thus can be considered to be bullying. In an ethnographic study of an idiosyncratic New Zealand IT company, we observed humour that was sexualised, dominating, and p...

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Main Authors: Barbara Plester, Tim Bentley, Emily Brewer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies 2022-08-01
Series:The European Journal of Humour Research
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Online Access:https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/645