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Summary
This book explores humor and comedy in organizational settings. It aims to explore the relationship between humor and organization in a nuanced and radical way, one which reflects the richness and complexity of the relationship. It takes the view that humor and comedy are pervasive, entrenched and highly meaningful aspects of human experience and that they are as significant in organizational and work contexts as they are in any other domain of human activity. The book examines the relationship between humor, organizations and work in three different but related domains. Firstly it considers how humor is constructed, enacted and responded to in organizational settings. Secondly, it focuses on how organizations and work are represented cosmetically in various types of popular culture media such as television, film and books. Finally, it examines organizational and work situations where there is a more explicit relationship between the comedic and organization/work. An exciting and controversial text,Humour Organization and Workwill appeal to students of all levels as well as anyone engaged in humor at work.
Table of Contents
| Notes on contributors | p. vii |
| Humour and the study of organizations | p. 1 |
| Theorizing humour, organization and work | p. 15 |
| Humour as practically enacted theory, or, why critics should tell more jokes | p. 17 |
| Humour and violation | p. 33 |
| Theory as joke: a hysterical perturbation | p. 45 |
| Humour in organizations | p. 75 |
| The Little Book of Management Bollocks and the culture of organization | p. 77 |
| 'Don't get me wrong, it's fun here, but...: ambivalence and paradox in a 'fun' work environment | p. 92 |
| Representing the unrepresentable: gender, humour and organization | p. 113 |
| Humour in workplace meetings: challenging hierarchies | p. 139 |
| Humour of organizations | p. 159 |
| Representing the d'other: the grotesque body and masculinity at work in The Simpsons | p. 161 |
| Heidegger's unfunny and the academic text: organization analysis on the blink | p. 180 |
| The comedy of ethics: the New York four, the duty of care and organizational bystanding | p. 204 |
| The organization of humour | p. 233 |
| Advertising: the organizational production of humour | p. 235 |
| Grotesque humor regeneration of McDonaldization and McDonaldland | p. 249 |
| The staging of humour: organizing and managing comedy | p. 271 |
| Index | p. 299 |
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