Table of contents - Special Issue: Are we having fun yet? A consideration of workplace fun and engagement
Guest Editors: Sharon Bolton, Maeve Houlihan
Are we having fun yet? A consideration of workplace fun and engagement
Sharon C. Bolton, Maeve HoulihanThis extended editorial to the Special Issue “Are we having fun yet? A consideration of workplace fun and engagement” aims to review the current debates on organised “fun at work”…
“Just be yourself!”: Towards neo‐normative control in organisations?
Peter Fleming, Andrew SturdyThe paper seeks to explore the nature and employee experience of an emergent approach to managing employees which emphasises “being yourself” through the expression of fun…
Crossing the line: boundaries of workplace humour and fun
Barbara PlesterThis paper aims to present exploratory, empirical data from an ethnographic study into workplace humour and fun. It explores the notion that workplace humour and fun are…
Fun and well‐being: insights from senior managers in a local authority
Nicole Renee BaptisteThis paper aims to critically examine the dynamics of fun and well‐being at work, as experienced and perceived by senior managers in a public sector context.
Workplace fun: the moderating effects of generational differences
Eric Lamm, Michael D. MeeksThis paper aims to investigate how generational differences moderate the relationship between workplace fun and individual workplace outcomes.
Rituals of fun and mischief: the case of the Swedish meatpackers
Susanne Strömberg, Jan Ch. KarlssonThis article seeks to analyse rituals of humour and joking practices among two groups of meatpacking workers, to better understand the organic dynamics of workplace fun.
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0142-5455Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Prof Dennis Nickson