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Barbara Anne Plester

Observed names: Barbara A Plester, Barbara A. Plester, Barbara Plester, Barbara Plester (20443355), Plester, B, Plester, Barbara
ORCID: 0000-0003-2341-0304
Observed ORCID: 0000-0003-2341-0304
OpenAlex ID: A5017508945
“Taking the piss”: Functions of banter in the IT industry
2007 · Barbara A Plester, Janet Sayers · Humor - International Journal of Humor Research · 178
Fun times: the relationship between fun and workplace engagement
2016 · Barbara Plester, Ann Hutchison · Employee Relations · 175
The Complexity of Workplace Humour
2015 · Barbara Plester · Springer eBooks · 99
Crossing the line: boundaries of workplace humour and fun
2009 · Barbara Plester · Employee Relations · 97
The fun paradox
2015 · Barbara Plester, Helena Cooper-Thomas, et al. · Employee Relations · 76
Healthy humour: using humour to cope at work
2009 · Barbara Plester · Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online · 64
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Send in the clowns: The role of the joker in three New Zealand IT companies
2008 · Barbara Plester, Mark Orams · Humor - International Journal of Humor Research · 62
Does fun work? The complexity of promoting fun at work
2010 · Kathryn Owler, Rachel Morrison, et al. · Journal of Management & Organization · 61
Harmony and Distress: Humor, Culture, and Psychological Well-Being in South Korean Organizations
2019 · Hee Sun Kim, Barbara A. Plester · Frontiers in Psychology · 54
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Ingesting the organization: The embodiment of organizational food rituals
2014 · Barbara Plester · Culture and Organization · 39
Happiness Is ‘Being Yourself’: Psychological Safety and Fun in Hybrid Work
2023 · Barbara Anne Plester, Rhiannon Lloyd · Administrative Sciences · 30
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Manager-employee psychological contracts: enter the smartphone
2018 · Elena Obushenkova, Barbara Plester, et al. · Employee Relations · 29
’Take it like a man!’: Performing hegemonic masculinity through organizational humour
2015 · Plester, B · ResearchSpace (University of Auckland) · 26
Functionalist Discourse Analysis of Humor
2017 · Stephanie Schnurr, Barbara Plester · Routledge eBooks · 25
“Show us what you’ve got”: From experiences of undoing to mobilizing agentic vulnerability in research
2021 · Barbara Plester, Heesun Kim, et al. · Gender Work and Organization · 18
Risky Business: Humour, Hierarchy, and Harmony in New Zealand and South Korean Workplaces
2021 · Barbara Plester, Heesun Kim · Springer eBooks · 18
"It only hurts when I laugh": tolerating bullying humour in order to belong at work
2022 · Barbara Plester, Tim Bentley, et al. · European Journal of Humour Research · 14
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Health and wellness but at what cost? Technology media justifications for wearable technology use in organizations
2022 · Barbara Plester, Janet Sayers, et al. · Organization · 14
New frontiers of fun: sharing and supporting workplace fun in hybrid work
2024 · Barbara Plester, Rhiannon Lloyd · Employee Relations · 12
Smashing, Shaming, or Polite Fun and Joy? How Workplace Humor Influences Positive Well-Being in South Korean Workplaces
2021 · Hee Sun Kim, Barbara Plester · Frontiers in Psychology · 12
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Laugh out loud : how organisational culture influences workplace humour : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment for the degree of Ph. D. in Management at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
2008 · Barbara Plester · Massey Research Online (Massey University) · 10
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Laugh out Loud: A User’s Guide to Workplace Humor
2018 · Barbara Plester, Kerr Inkson · Springer eBooks · 8
‘It’s a man’s world’: the lived experiences of women working in the New Zealand professional commercial property industry
2021 · Deborah Levy, Barbara Plester, et al. · Journal of Property Research · 7
The impact of organisational culture and dynamic capabilities on learning evaluation: An interpretive analysis
2020 · Barbara Plester, James Costello · International Journal of Learning and Change · 6
Workplace humor
2021 · Barbara Plester · Routledge eBooks · 3
Works count: 70
Citation count: 1,148
H-index: 16
I10-index: 21
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