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July 6, 2026Journal of Managerial Psychology

Dual pathways of leader humor to employee creativity: testing a serial mediation model

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KJKiho JunJLJoonghak LeeJKJieun Kim

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Overview

Randomized trial tests how leader humor boosts creativity in employees, suggesting new pathways for motivation.

Key Points

  • This study aims to understand how leader humor influences employee creativity through psychological mechanisms.
  • Used four-wave data from 357 employees in the USA.
  • Analyzed how leader humor affects intrinsic motivation via leader-member exchange quality and positive affect.
  • Tested a serial mediation model to elucidate the impact pathways.
  • Leader humor significantly enhances creativity through intrinsic motivation.
  • Leader humor indirectly improves employee creativity via increased leader-member exchange quality and positive affect.
  • Both identified pathways—relational-motivational and affective-motivational—promote creativity effectively.

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Jun et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a4b45da997070ff83b5b7efhttps://doi.org/10.1108/jmp-08-2025-0832
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