Boss's bad jokes can improve your job satisfaction

If relationships are good, use of both positive and negative humour by leaders can help improve their subordinates’ job satisfaction, suggests new research.

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"Generally, people think that positive humour, which is inclusive, affiliative and tasteful, is good in leadership, and negative humour, which is aggressive and offensive, is bad," said one of the researchers Christopher Robert, associate professor at University of Missouri in the US.

"In our study, we found the effects of humour depend on the relationship between leaders and subordinates," Robert noted.