Winning battles with a joke

Q2 Social Sciences
Sumagna Bhowmick, V. R
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Abstract

Humour in military organizations can be antithetical given the rigid hierarchy, high degrees of work formalization, and obedience to hierarchy. This paper explores how humour is initiated, propagated and maintained in the Indian Army. We conducted twelve in-depth interviews with retired army professionals and used Braun and Clarke’s (2006) thematic analysis to capture the study's main findings. Three major themes emerged – organizational humour, leader humour, and team humour. We found humour is essential in combating stress, increasing social cohesion, facilitating newcomer assimilation, and promoting a positive work environment. We also found evidence of subversive humour used in forms of resistance to challenge the hierarchical structure subtly. We have provided a three-part schema of workplace humour which sheds interesting insights on workplace humour. Our findings will contribute to understanding how military humour helps to maneuver challenges of a stressful work situation.
用笑话赢得战斗
在军事组织中,由于严格的等级制度、高度的工作形式化和对等级制度的服从,幽默可能是对立的。本文探讨了幽默是如何在印度军队中产生、传播和保持的。我们对退休的军队专业人员进行了12次深度访谈,并使用Braun和Clarke(2006)的主题分析来捕捉研究的主要发现。三个主要的主题出现了——组织幽默、领导幽默和团队幽默。我们发现幽默在对抗压力、增强社会凝聚力、促进新人同化和营造积极的工作环境方面至关重要。我们还发现了一些颠覆性幽默的证据,这些幽默巧妙地以抵抗的形式挑战了等级结构。我们提供了一个由三部分组成的职场幽默图式,为职场幽默提供了有趣的见解。我们的研究结果将有助于理解军事幽默如何帮助应对压力大的工作环境的挑战。
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European Journal of Humour Research
European Journal of Humour Research Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
CiteScore
1.10
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0.00%
发文量
34
审稿时长
6 weeks
期刊介绍: The European Journal of Humour Research (EJHR) is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal with an international multidisciplinary editorial board. Although geographically-oriented towards the ˋold continentˊ, the European perspective aims at an international readership and contributors. EJHR covers the full range of work being done on all aspects of humour phenomenon. EJHR is designed to respond to the important changes that have affected the study of humour but particular predominance is given to the past events and current developments in Europe.
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