Fooling the company - The Corporate Jester As Driving Force For Organizational Change

This conceptual article proposes the establishing of the position of a corporate jester to support organizational change processes. The article focuses on the inevitable transformations companies have to go through, given the diversification and pluralization of the workforce. The corporate jeste...

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Main Author:	Köllen, Thomas
Format:	Others
Language:	en
Published:	Computer Science Journals 2012
Subjects:	corporate jester / humor / organizational change / diversity management / inclusion
Online Access:	http://epub.wu.ac.at/5126/1/IJBRM%2D128.pdf

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spelling	ndltd-VIENNA-oai-epub.wu-wien.ac.at-51262016-08-09T05:23:43Z Fooling the company - The Corporate Jester As Driving Force For Organizational Change Köllen, Thomas corporate jester / humor / organizational change / diversity management / inclusion This conceptual article proposes the establishing of the position of a corporate jester to support organizational change processes. The article focuses on the inevitable transformations companies have to go through, given the diversification and pluralization of the workforce. The corporate jester theoretically is framed as part of an organizational "comical artifact staging", that by utilizing humor as an element of organizational change, experiences more openness and less resistance than more educative tools. (author's abstract) Computer Science Journals 2012 Article PeerReviewed en application/pdf http://epub.wu.ac.at/5126/1/IJBRM%2D128.pdf http://www.cscjournals.org/manuscript/Journals/IJBRM/Volume3/Issue6/IJBRM-128.pdf http://www.cscjournals.org/authors/open-access.php http://www.cscjournals.org/ http://www.ijmsbr.com/ http://epub.wu.ac.at/5126/
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description	This conceptual article proposes the establishing of the position of a corporate jester to support organizational change processes. The article focuses on the inevitable transformations companies have to go through, given the diversification and pluralization of the workforce. The corporate jester theoretically is framed as part of an organizational "comical artifact staging", that by utilizing humor as an element of organizational change, experiences more openness and less resistance than more educative tools. (author's abstract)
author	Köllen, Thomas
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title	Fooling the company - The Corporate Jester As Driving Force For Organizational Change
title_short	Fooling the company - The Corporate Jester As Driving Force For Organizational Change
title_full	Fooling the company - The Corporate Jester As Driving Force For Organizational Change
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publisher	Computer Science Journals
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Fooling the company - The Corporate Jester As Driving Force For Organizational Change

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