리더의 유머가 부하직원의 적응성과 및 이직의도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구: 직무스트레스의 매개효과를 중심으로

Leader‘s humor has attracted the attention of scholars in the field of human resource organization as an effective organizational strategy or management method. As a direct supervisor of employees, a leader's positive humor can convey emotions and positive energy in the management process, which positively affects employees' work attitudes and behaviors. leader‘s humor can also have negative effects, as it comes in many forms and depends not only on the humorist but also on the recipient. However, there is currently a lack of research on the negative effects of leader humor. In this study, we examine how leaders' friendly and aggressive humor affects employees' adaptive performance and turnover intentions. In addition, job stress was identified as a mediating variable in the relationship between leader humor and adaptive performance and turnover intentions. The results of the empirical analysis using employees in China show that (1) leader's friendly humor has a positive effect on adaptive performance, (2) leader's aggressive humor has a negative effect on adaptive performance, (3) leader's friendly humor has a negative effect on turnover intention, and (4) leader's aggressive humor has a positive effect on turnover intention. In addition, the mediating role of job stress was analyzed and found that (5) leader's friendly humor has a negative effect on job stress, (6) leader's aggressive humor has a positive effect on job stress, (7) job stress has a negative effect on employee adaptive performance, and (8) job stress has a positive effect on turnover intention. Taken together, (9) job stress partially mediates the relationships between leader friendly and aggressive humor and employee adaptive performance and turnover intentions.