Accessible and amusing in style, Humour, Work and Organization explores the critical, subversive and ambivalent character of humour, work and comedy as it relates to organizations and organized work.

Part 1: Theorizing Humour, Organization and Work

1. Introduction: Humour and the Study of Organizations (Robert Westwood & Carl Rhodes)

2. Humour as Practically Enacted Theory, or, Why Critics Should Tell More Jokes (Simon Critchley)

3. Humour and Violation (Heather Höpfl)

Part 2: Humour in Organizations

4. Theory as Joke (Robert Westwood)

5. The Little Book of Management Bollocks and the Culture of Organization (Martin Parker)

6. 'Don't Get Me Wrong, it's fun here, but...' Ambivalence and Paradox in a 'fun' work environment (Sam Warren and Stephen Fineman)

7. Representing the Unrepresentable: Gender, humour and organization (Allanah Johnston, Dennis Mumby & Robert Westwood)

8. Humour in Workplace Meetings: Challenging hierarchies (Meredith Marra)

Part 3: Humour of Organization

9. Representing d'Other: The grotesque body and masculinity at work in The Simpsons (Carl Rhodes & Alison Pullen)

10. Heidegger's Unfunny and the Academic Text (Damian O'Doherty)

11. The Comedy of Ethics (Stephen Linstead)

Part 4: The Organization of Humour

12. Advertising: The organizational production of humour (Donncha Kavanagh & Don O'Sullivan)

13. Grotesque Humour Regeneration of McDonaldization and McDonaldland (David M. Boje, Yue Cal-Hillon, Grace-Ann Rosile & Esther R. Thomas)

14. The Staging of Humour (Robert Westwood)