1830: I Am an Intelligent Leader! How and Why Leader Humor Impacts Leader’s Subsequent Behaviors (14597)

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

08:00 – 09:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Swissotel: Matterhorn

Session Number: 1830
Paper Session
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/bRpYq7

Author(s)

YW

Yujing Wang

Nanjing U. of Science and Technology, China
KZ

Kong Zhou

Nanjing U. of Science and Technology, China
YL

Yuchuan Liu

Nanjing U., China
XH

Xiaofei Hu

Hong Kong Polytechnic U., China
HZ

Huan Zhao

Nanjing U. of Science and Technology, China
XZ

Xuan Zhou

Nanjing U. of Science and Technology, China

Leader humor has been found to be associated with many positive follower outcomes. However, our knowledge about its influences on leaders themselves is very limited. Based on the process model of self-conscious emotions, we theorize a leader-centered model by proposing that daily leader humor is positively related to leader authentic pride, which indirectly enhances leaders’ subsequent initiating structure behavior and consideration behavior. Moreover, we also theorize that leaders’ ideal leadership self-concept for intelligence can augment the benefits of leader humor to leaders. By conducting an experience sampling investigation of 99 leaders (984 day-level observations) who completed two surveys per day for ten workdays, we found that leader humor was positively related to leader pride, which enhanced their subsequent initiating structure behavior and consideration behavior. Moreover, leaders with a high ideal leadership self-concept for intelligence tended to experience more pride after they expressed humor at work than leaders with a low ideal leadership self-concept for intelligence.

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