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Consequences of Self-Defeating Humor on Employee Commitment via Emotional
Dissonance

Volume 7, Issue 4
Shahbaz Masih, Shazmina Saher, Valliappan Raju

Published online: 13 August 2021

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The goal of this research is to have a deeper grasp of the link between negative humor in leadership and employee commitment by investigating the mediating effect of emotional dissonance between the variables in question. Overuse of self-mockery, adoration of others, and unsuccessful rejection of unpleasant feelings define self-defeating humor. Based on Affective Events Theory (AET), this study explains that self-defeating humor creates emotional dissonance among employees which reduces employee commitment. The data were collected in two phases with a time lag of four weeks, from 366 hotel employees of Pakistan. The data was analyzed with the help of SmartPLS. The results give the insight that self-defeating humor reduces employee commitment. Moreover, self-defeating humor is the reason for emotional dissonance in employees which reduces employee commitment. This research significantly adds to AET theory and humor literature by testing the self-defeating humor in leadership to measure employee commitment and is helpful for the management of the hotel industry to control the negative humor.

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Consequences of Self-Defeating Humor on Employee Commitment via Emotional Dissonance

Consequences of Self-Defeating Humor on Employee Commitment via Emotional
Dissonance