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November 13, 2025Leadership & Organization Development Journal

Inspire or stifle innovation behavior? Exploring bystanders’ differential responses to the leader aggressive humor

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HCHao ChenLWLiang WangJBJiaying Bao

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Implication

Observations highlight leader aggressive humor's mixed impact on bystander innovation behavior, suggesting cognitive evaluation interventions may mitigate risks.

Key Points

  • This research aims to investigate how leader aggressive humor influences bystander innovation behavior via appraisal mechanisms.
  • Survey of 388 employees and their leaders across seven companies in China
  • Paired data collection at three different time points
  • Empirical analysis using Mplus 7.4 software
  • Leader aggressive humor promotes bystander challenge appraisal, enhancing innovation behavior.
  • Conflictingly, it also induces bystander threat appraisal, decreasing innovation behavior.
  • Bystander perspective taking moderates the effects of leader aggressive humor on both challenge and threat appraisals.

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Chen et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/692523b2c0ce034ddc35474ehttps://doi.org/10.1108/lodj-04-2024-0261
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