幽默是塑造领导魅力的关键要素，是提升领导有效性的重要途径。在当前管理实践愈发强调以员工为中心的时代背景下，领导幽默在组织中发挥着越来越重要的作用。如何指引企业家提升领导幽默及其对员工的积极影响，是学术界与管理者亟待探索的重要课题。本项目采用定性与定量相结合的方法，聚焦于以下三个议题展开组织中领导幽默的形成和作用机制研究：其一，因循行为观视角，基于关系加工理论，着重探索影响领导幽默形成和发展的外部环境因素和内部个体因素的作用，系统地从组织、领导、员工三个方面展开对领导幽默形成机制及其边界条件的探索；其二，基于社会交换理论，从关系视角考察领导幽默对员工的幽默、建言等职场人际沟通行为的影响及其作用机制。其三，基于工作-家庭边界和促进理论，探讨领导幽默对员工家庭亲密度、家庭冲突等家庭内关系变量的跨界影响及其作用机制。本项目旨在凸显领导幽默在组织管理中的独特作用，给新时期的中国企业实践以借鉴和启迪。

Humor is shaping the key elements of charismatic leadership. It is a promising way to improve the leadership effectiveness. Leader humor plays a more and more significant role in the organizational management, especially in the period of employee-centered management. To this end, it is essential for the researcher to address the issues about why and how to utilize humor in order to build and sustain better and productive work environment. First, this study will focus on the impacts of different external environmental factors and internal individual factors which might influence the formation and development of leader humor, and will systematically explore the potential factors which might modulate the link between leader humor and it’s antecedents from organization, leadership and employee perspective. Second, based on interpersonal communication theory and social exchange theory, this research will explain how leader humor affects the subordinates’ workplace interpersonal performance and behaviors and the underlying mechanism. Finally, grounded on the work-family boundary theory and enhancement theory, we aim to investigate the impacts of leader humor on subordinates’ family cohesive as well as family conflict and the underlying mechanism. Above all, the research aims to highlight the unique impact of leader humor in organizational management, and provide insights and strategies for Chinese enterprises during the transitional period.