Review and Prospect of the Research on the Ambidexterity of Leadership Humor

Abstract

Leadership humor is a new type of leadership that integrates humorous behavior into leadership. It is characterized by breaking the traditional dogmatic management and aims to adopt humorous and interesting interactive ways to manage and stimulate the benign behaviors of subordinates. Although the research on leadership humor has made some progress in both theoretical and empirical aspects, the research on the duality of leadership humor is still in its infancy. Through literature review, this paper analyzes the connotation of the duality measure of leader humor and the effect of different types of leader humor, and makes an in-depth review on the duality path and boundary conditions of leader humor influencing subordinates' behavior. Finally, in view of the difficulties and shortcomings of the research on leadership humor duality, four feasible research directions are proposed in the future.