Özet:

It has long been known that it has a positive impact on human happiness and well-being. Humor, which has been researched by many disciplines, has recently attracted the attention of researchers working in the field of organizational behavior and has begun to be the subject of humor study at work. This study aims to present employees’ sense of humor at work through metaphors. For this purpose, the data obtained from the 36 bank employees resulted in a tubular content analysis of different perspectives on the workplace humor. According to this, it has been shown that medications and medical metaphors that call for health are often used, and that humor is perceived as a organizational element with a healing, healing power in the workplace. In addition, metaphors such as salt, sweet, meat, which are often expressed and calling for nature, metaphors such as sun, life, clouds, and calling for food, have shown that humor at work is perceived as a necessity for the organization member to live. The reason and the logical foundations of the metaphors presented for these produced metaphors are assessed within the humorous theories and found that the humorous is mostly perceived in the context of the theory of relaxation, as well as the foundations that call for the theory of incompatibility. The data obtained from the study group has not been described as the reason and the basis of the metafor that expresses the theory of superiority.

Özet:

It has long been known that humor has positive effects on human happiness and well-being. The humor, which has been the subject of research by many disciplines, has also recently attracted the attention of researchers working in the field of organizational behavior and the humor in the workplace has come into use of subject of research. This study aims to present the humor perception of the employees in the workplace via metaphors. For this purpose, as a result of the inductive content analysis of the data obtained from 36 bank employees, different perspectives on humor in the workplace were determined. According to this, it has been seen that drugs and doctor metaphors which are associated with health are frequently used and humor is perceived as an organizational element with healing and therapeutic power in the workplace. In addition, metaphors such as sun, life, rainbow, which are often expressed and associated with nature connotations, and metaphors which make nutrient connotations such as salt, sweet and meat, have shown that humor is perceived as a necessary necessity for the survival of the organization member at work. The rationales of the metaphors produced and the logical basis of these metaphors were evaluated within the context of humor theories and it was found that humor was mostly perceived in the context of Relief theory, and that there were also foundations that evoke the theory of Incongruity. In the data obtained from the study group, the rationale and the basis of the metaphor expressing the theory of Superiority were not described.

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