摘要：The aim of this paper is to study the effects of the four styles of leaders’ humor (Affiliative humor style, Self-enhancing humor style, Aggressive humor style and Self-defeating humor style) on employees’ creativity. This study was intended to examine the effects of leaders’ humor styles on employees’ creativity in the dynamic and creative environment of the organizations of IT industry. A total of 111 out of over 500 people who are working as a manager in Software Houses took part in this research. The technique used for sampling is Simple Random Sampling as it is feasible for time and cost and its accurate representation of the larger population. The data collection process was self-administered and self-distributed. The results of the study have revealed that the affiliative humor style used by leaders will have a positive and significant effect on employees’ creativity, Self-Enhancing humor, being humor, is used to enhance the self thus having no significant effect on employees’ creativity. While Aggressive humor style and Self-defeating humor style, being negative styles do not encourage employees to think creatively. the study recommend future research might examine the individual differences associated with different types of leader and follower humor. While gender has been associated with different humor preferences, less information is known about other characteristics that might be relevant.
