Humor in Member Narratives: Uniting and Dividing at Work

摘要: The experience of humor consists two simultaneous mental elements: a perception normal pattern and violation such pattern. This study explored how was created in narratives within one organization to unify members the face potentially divisive values behaviors. Paradoxically, this context, also served stress behavioral or characteristic differences among members. Problematic clashing as result these were channelled negotiated through humorous narratives. By providing less threatening means acknowledging disagreement, promote unity organizational by reinforcing shared establishing social order incongruous conflicting values. Through enabling shift between unifying differentiating narratives, allowed maintain diversity.