Although the consequences of leader humor on subordinates have been well documented, the important issues of how and when leader humor affects employees’ attitudes or behaviors beyond the workplace have received limited attention. We integrate the humor literature with spillover-crossover theory to address the gap regarding the implications of leader humor in the nonwork domain. By performing an experiment and two field studies involving employee-spouse dyads, we consistently find 1) a positive association between leader humor and followers’ job satisfaction, 2) a spillover effect of followers’ job satisfaction on subordinates’ work-to-family enrichment (WFE) and a crossover effect of subordinates’ WFE on their spouses’ marital satisfaction, 3) serial mediating effects of followers’ job satisfaction and WFE on the leader humor-spouses’ marital satisfaction link, and 4) a stronger positive indirect effect of leader humor on spouse’ marital satisfaction via followers’ job satisfaction and WFE when followers’ perceived organizational interpersonal harmony is low. We discuss the theoretical implications of these findings and suggest practical implications for developing leader humor to enhance employee well-being.

尽管领导幽默对下属的后果已得到充分证明，但是领导幽默如何以及何时影响员工在工作场所以外的态度或行为的重要问题却受到了有限的关注。我们将幽默文献与溢出-交叉理论相结合，以解决领导者幽默在非工作领域的影响方面的空白。通过进行一项涉及雇员配偶二元组的实验和两项实地研究，我们始终发现1）领导者幽默与追随者的工作满意度之间存在正相关，2）追随者的工作满意度对下属的工作对家庭的丰富化的溢出效应（WFE）和下属的WFE对配偶的婚姻满意度的交叉影响，3）跟随者的工作满意度和WFE对领导者幽默-配偶的婚姻满意度链接的一系列中介作用，以及4）当跟随者的感知时，领导者幽默通过跟随者的工作满意度和WFE对配偶的婚姻满意度产生更强的积极间接影响组织人际和谐度低。我们讨论了这些发现的理论意义，并提出了发展领导者幽默感以提高员工福利的实际意义。