Cracking jokes in the office might seem like a shortcut to likability or leadership. But new research shows that humor at ...

Have you ever come across the saying never explain a joke? It’s easy to understand where this idea comes from: The fun of humor is in the quick, shared realization that a serious rule has been broken ...

To all you aspiring Mrs. Maisels out there, I’ve got bad news: Don’t try to be funny. Certainly not in the workplace. Because if you tell jokes or deploy humor in a business setting, you will lose ...

I’ve been studying humor as an academic for a couple of decades now. I’ve written a doctoral dissertation about it, published articles about it, given talks about it, and am an avid consumer of ...

Humor can make an employee be perceived as confident and competent, but humor in the workplace can be a double-edge sword. WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger and Tanya Rivero discuss how employees can use humor ...

What causes sexist jokes in the workplace? Sexism is still alive and well in many workplaces—it’s just taken on new forms. While we have made some progress towards building more inclusive ...

As the days lengthen and better weather approaches everyoneís spirits tend to lift. This is sometimes accompanied by a desire to lighten the mood in the workplace by playing practical jokes on ...

KARL MOORE – This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, with Talking Management for The Globe and Mail. Today I am delighted to speak to Peter McGraw who is a ...

There will be no whoopee cushions, hand buzzers or fake vomit at city hall in London, Ont. And April 1 will be just another day of the year. London city councillors have passed a bylaw that prohibits ...

"It's hard to dance when you're crying," DeGeneres said while admitting how hard it was for her to cope as she became "persona non grata" for the second time in her career Even though Ellen DeGeneres ...