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Integrating the study of within- and between-person variability in personality at work (2011)
Book Chapter
Beckmann, N., Minbashian, A., & Wood, R. (2011). Integrating the study of within- and between-person variability in personality at work. In S. Boag, & N. Tiliopoulos (Eds.), Personality and individual differences : theory, assessment and application. Nova

Research on personality in the workplace has primarily focussed on differences between individuals in their typical thoughts, feelings and behaviours as represented in the five-factor model of personality (McCrae & Costa, 1999). We argue that a withi... Read More about Integrating the study of within- and between-person variability in personality at work.

Management humor: Asset or liability? (2011)
Journal Article
Wood, R., Beckmann, N., & Rossiter, J. (2011). Management humor: Asset or liability?. Organizational Psychology Review, 1(4), 316-338. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041386611418393

Should managers deliberately employ humor to persuade and motivate staff? A framework is presented for analyzing the role of humor in managerial communications. The framework includes the presenter, recipient, message, and medium and elaborates cogni... Read More about Management humor: Asset or liability?.