Abstract Supervisor humor has been shown to be related to various employee outcomes. In this vein, prior research has demonstrated the positive role of supervisor humor in increasing employee job performance. However, little is known about the mediating and moderating mechanisms that explain this relationship. Addressing this gap, the present study develops and tests a moderated mediation model by highlighting work enjoyment as a mediator and suspicion about the supervisor as a moderator. Results from a sample of 190 employees working in a large retail organization showed that work enjoyment mediates the relationship between supervisor humor and subordinates’ job performance and, further, that this indirect effect is dependent upon suspicion of the supervisor.

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主管幽默与员工工作绩效：主管工作享受与怀疑的调节中介模型

摘要 主管幽默已被证明与各种员工成果有关。在这方面，先前的研究已经证明了主管幽默在提高员工工作绩效方面的积极作用。然而，人们对解释这种关系的中介和调节机制知之甚少。针对这一差距，本研究通过强调作为调解员的工作乐趣和对作为调解员的主管的怀疑，开发和测试了一个调解调解模型。对在大型零售组织工作的 190 名员工进行抽样调查的结果表明，工作享受在主管幽默与下属工作绩效之间的关系中起中介作用，而且这种间接影响取决于对主管的怀疑。