Are We Having Fun Yet?
A consideration of workplace fun and engagement
Published on 9. October 2009
96 pages
978-1-84855-991-2 (ISBN)
Description
This e-book of Employee Relations seeks to bring critical voice to the notion of 'managed' fun at work and to challenge existing perceived wisdoms - from both the practitioner and academic communities. Although apparently rapidly surrendering to budget cuts in these currently recessionary times, ideas of fun, play and laughter have provided the latest management fad, peddled as a means to involve and empower employees. The last decade has duly seen a growing emphasis on the notion of fun at work as a much vaunted employee engagement mechanism.
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Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- Editorial advisory board
- Are we having fun yet?
- "Just be yourself!"
- Crossing the line: boundaries of workplace humour and fun
- Fun and well-being: insights from senior managers in a local authority
- Workplace fun: the moderating effects of generational differences
- Rituals of fun and mischief: the case of the Swedish meatpackers
