Resilience as Moderator Between Workplace Humour and Well-Being, a Positive Psychology Perspective

Oosthuizen, Rudolf M.

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“…Furthermore, as literature on positive psychology identifies resilience as a promoter of employee wellbeing and mental health [ 89 , 90 ]. It is expected that resilience as a moderator [ 91 ] in an ethical leadership framework will influence the intrinsic motivation and psychological contract fulfillment (factors related to positive human psychology) of employees, which then reduce turnover. Therefore, we expect that resilience will moderate the mediated relationship between ethical leadership and turnover.…”

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Proposing a Robust Model to Reduce Employees’ Turnover Intentions in an Ethical Leadership Framework: Empirical Evidence from the Healthcare Sector

Jian¹,

Wang

Al-Smadi

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Employee turnover is expensive and disruptive for an organization. Studies have already mentioned that the economic cost of turnover is huge, ranging from 90% to 200% of the existing employee’s salary. With an increase in turnover rate, the social fabric of an enterprise may be disrupted. Additionally, organizations with an increasing turnover are expected to lose intangible knowledge and skills, operational effectiveness, customer satisfaction, and product or service quality. In a healthcare context, an increasing turnover rate has more consequences than other sectors because the healthcare sector worldwide is already identified as a sector facing resource scarcity. Exacerbating the situation, current evidence suggests that employee turnover has been increasing globally in the healthcare sector. The literature suggests that an ethical leadership style may reduce employees’ likelihood of quitting an organization. However, such literature is sparse in healthcare, especially from the perspective of a developing economy in the Global South, which is more resource-deficient than the Global North. To fill this knowledge gap, this study investigates the relationship between ethical leadership style and turnover intentions in the healthcare context of the Global South. This study also tests the mediating effect of intrinsic motivation and psychological contract fulfillment in the above-proposed relationship. Furthermore, the conditional indirect effect of resilience is also tested. The data are collected from the hospital employees through a self-administered questionnaire. The hypothesized relationships are tested through structural equation modeling. The empirical evidence indicates that ethical leadership reduces employees’ turnover intentions significantly. The results further confirm the mediating and moderating effects of intrinsic motivation, psychological contract fulfillment, and resilience. These results have different theoretical and practical implications for the healthcare sector. The results especially highlight the role of ethical leaders in a hospital to deal with the challenge of turnover, which has been rising worldwide.

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confidence: 99%

Proposing a Robust Model to Reduce Employees’ Turnover Intentions in an Ethical Leadership Framework: Empirical Evidence from the Healthcare Sector

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Wang

Al-Smadi

et al. 2022

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“…Storytelling, funny-humorous stories, or exciting narratives [5,[28][29][30] as an expressive-verbal form of humour is one of the many old known classroom techniques and strategies, but one that seemed to be used only by very few passionate, creative and effective classroom teachers to motivate or inspire their students in the learning process [31][32][33][34]. Using humour as a teaching and learning technique or strategy [16] is necessary even more so in an environment such as the mathematics classroom where things tend to be run in a machine-like-robotic fashion with little or no regard to human feelings or emotions.…”

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“…While STEM education is no doubt valuable in its own rights and efficient as it helps in quickly achieving the much desired economic prosperity, it is by itself alone not sufficient education, especially if promoted in an apparent expense or negligence of the other equally-valuable disciplines such as the creative fine arts, since those other forms of non-STEM education out there are also needed for the people's overall general well-being as fully developed human beings with an extra sense of humour. This is because having a sense of humour is documented in the literature as a sign of human strength, intelligence, wisdom and psychological maturity [5].…”

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“…Humour as a teaching technique or strategy has been widely defined as anything perceived or recognised by students to be funny, comical, or amusing; or the quality that makes something funny, laughable or amusing [6,7]; and is more recently generally defined as an skillset, away to communicate, an educational strategy, a personal perspective or a positive emotional and behavioral response [8]. In this study, however, humour was specifically defined relative to mathematics content area as "mathematical humour" [9], a mathematics content-related humour often derived from mathematical concepts being discussed, combined with general humour ideas, particularly the incongruity theory of humour characterised by elements of surprises and unexpected twists or turns [5]. This opinions survey about teachers' views or attitudes was motivated by a South Sudanese volunteer mathematics teacher who initially agreed to take part as a co-teacher-researcher during the experimentation and implementation phase of H-SIA [10], but who later opted out of research participation.…”

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“…Dealing with an infinite task is always a delicate business or issue and it is therefore not surprising why we always hear various students' stories about mathematics classrooms that are so boring, about mathematical experiences that are so humiliating, or about mathematics tasks that are so pointless [2]. Hence, it pays to lighten up the subject with humour or in other ways that are appreciated by the students [3,4] as humour itself is known to play an important role in people's overall well-being in their daily-life activities [5].…”

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Views of South Sudanese Secondary School Teachers about the Use of Humour in the Mathematics Classroom

Tap¹,

Bulbul²,

Ajang³

2022

Advances in Research in STEM Education

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This chapter reports the views of South Sudanese secondary school teachers about the use of humour in the mathematics classroom as a teaching and learning tool. The use of humour as a pedagogical toolkit in a mathematics classroom is something that has not yet been seriously or widely considered and how the teachers, especially South Sudanese teachers, would react to the use of humour in the classroom was not yet known. An opinion survey containing six (6) close-ended questionnaire items or statements related to the use of humour in the classroom was distributed to ten (10) secondary schools located within and around Juba city. About sixty-five (65) South Sudanese secondary school teachers responded to the survey. Posed was a research question intended to explore the general views, attitudes, or opinions of South Sudanese secondary school teachers: What do South Sudanese secondary school teachers think about the use of Humour-Supported Instructional Approach (H-SIA), a proposed-alternative method of teaching and learning mathematics at secondary school level? Findings of this opinions survey indicate that South Sudanese secondary school teachers’ overall average views are positive toward the use of humour in the classroom setting. The average majority of the surveyed secondary school teachers appeared keen and seemed eager to welcome experimentation with new ways of teaching and learning in the classroom. Hence, it is recommended that classroom teachers be always encouraged and allowed a certain degree of freedom to explore and try out new ways of teaching and learning. It is suggested, however, that teachers be first provided with necessary proper training about how to use humour appropriately, effectively, and creatively in the classroom environments.

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Humour as a Coping Strategy for Employees in Remote Workspaces During Covid-19

Mayer

Mayer²

2021

The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research

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Resilience as Moderator Between Workplace Humour and Well-Being, a Positive Psychology Perspective

Cited by 13 publications

References 113 publications

Proposing a Robust Model to Reduce Employees’ Turnover Intentions in an Ethical Leadership Framework: Empirical Evidence from the Healthcare Sector

Proposing a Robust Model to Reduce Employees’ Turnover Intentions in an Ethical Leadership Framework: Empirical Evidence from the Healthcare Sector

Views of South Sudanese Secondary School Teachers about the Use of Humour in the Mathematics Classroom

Humour as a Coping Strategy for Employees in Remote Workspaces During Covid-19

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