Creativity and Humor Styles in Bureaucracy

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The present study investigated the relations between creativity and humor in Tur-kish bureaucracy. Results revealed that people who are at different positions in bu-reaucracy and who are suppose to make decisions and have others do actualize them had significantly higher scores in creativity (F=3.261; p<.05). Subjects who were in positions where they were expected to work in groups most of the time had higher scores in creativity (F=2.831; p<.05) and self-affiliative humor (F=5.220; p<.01), but not in other styles of humor. Subjects who liked group discussions and making decisions with the group had higher scores in self-affiliative humor (F= 4.291; p<.01) and self- humiliative humor (F=2.965; p<.05), but no significant dif-ference was found for social and aggressive humor, as well as creativity. Discus-sions about the findings are included.

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