Context, complexity and Covid-19

Workplace humour in troubled times

Keynote presentation by Barbara Plester, PhD

This event begins Wed 3 Feb, 2021 at 1:30 PM NZST

Barbara Plester is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management and International Business (MIB). She completed her PhD in management at Massey University Albany campus in 2008 and was awarded the Top Achievers Doctoral Scholarship (TAD) by the Tertiary Education Commission. Barbara is a member of the Organisation Studies group in MIB and teaches papers on communication, organisational behaviour and HRM. She is an enthusiastic teacher and received a "Teaching Excellence Award" from the Business School in 2012 as well as a further "Teaching Excellence Award" from the University of Auckland in 2013. Barbara is a social science researcher with particular interest in the social aspects of organisational behaviour and organisational culture associated with humour, fun, small talk and sharing food and drink. She is the author of numerous articles addressing the role of fun and humour in the workplace and her most recent book is Laugh Out Loud: A User’s Guide to Workplace Humour, which she co-authored with Kerr Inkson (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019).

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