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Humour and Leadership at School

dc.contributor.authorAdão, Teresa
dc.contributor.authorOliveira, Ana Maria
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-26T17:44:26Z
dc.date.available2011-01-26T17:44:26Z
dc.date.issued2010-07
dc.description.abstractHumour and Leadership at School This study establishes a relationship between the capacity of humour appreciation and the way leadership is held at school. The individual leadership characteristics of some school leaders have been compared with their sense of humour and although the results haven’t been very conclusive, there is a strong tendency, showing that school headmasters who are true leaders reveal a good sense of humour. In methodological terms, this study was organized in two phases: in the first one, 85 headmasters answered to a questionnaire built in order to evaluate their leadership characteristics; in the second phase, 50 headmasters chosen among the initial 85 because of their good capacity of leadership were evaluated, taking into account Thorson and Powell sense of humour scale (1993). This experimental research enables us to conclude that there is a moderate positive correlation between sense of humour and the dominance personality of a leader as far as school environment is concerned.por
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/543
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
dc.publisherUniversity of Hong Kongpor
dc.subjectHumour and LeaderShippor
dc.subjectHumour Processingpor
dc.subjectHumour and Cognitionpor
dc.titleHumour and Leadership at Schoolpor
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.conferencePlaceHong Kongpor
oaire.citation.titleProceedings of The 20nd International Society for Humor Studies Conference 2010por
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspor
rcaap.typearticlepor

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