Recently, the corresponding author of the paper "Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision," by Ju Dong, an associate professor in the Department of Human Resource Management, was published in the Journal of Business Ethics (JBE), an authoritative journal in the field of business and ethics. JBE is one of the top 50 global Financial Times Journals recognized by the Financial Times. It has an important impact on the evaluation of academic research ranking of global business schools. The latest impact factor is 6.331, and it belongs to JCR Region I journals. The work was carried out by Associate Professor Ju Dong (corresponding author) in collaboration with research teams from UIBE, the National University of Singapore, Fudan University and Sun Yat-sen University.

Business ethics has always been a hot topic in academic circles at home and abroad. Science magazine listed ethics as one of the 125 most important scientific issues in the 21st century. This paper explores an important topic at the intersection of ethics and leadership -- the critical management behavior of leaders. Associate Professor Ju Dong has been deeply engaged in this field, and has published relevant articles in the international authoritative Journal of Management, the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), ranked UTD-24. The latest findings make a further contribution to the field by exploring ways to reduce the oppressive management practices that persist in organizations.

Based on the theory of resource conservation, it is found that humorous behavior of employees can resist the harsh management of leaders by increasing the leader's relational energy, and the role of leader gender in the above mechanism is explored. For female leaders, humorous behavior by subordinates is a more effective defense against harsh management. The results obtained the research data through an experiment of a western sample and a multi-time and multi-source field survey of a Chinese sample, and tested the data using Mplus 8.1 software and Monte Carlo and other research methods.

The academic circle has always paid much attention to the harsh management behavior of leaders, but the existing literature is limited to the study of the influence of harsh management on subordinates, without exploring how to reduce this kind of non-ethical behavior. The main theoretical innovation and academic value of this paper lies in the study of harsh management from a new perspective, which provides innovative ideas for the study of harsh management and even leadership. At the same time, it also provides some measures for management practice to reduce managers' harsh management.

Link of the paper：https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05208-9

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Personal Introduction:

Ju Dong, Associate Professor, Department of Human Resource Management

She is a doctor from Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. Her research field is organizational behavior and human resource management. Currently, she is engaged in the research of leadership, ethical behavior and employee dismission. She has been published in top domestic and foreign journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Academic, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Management World, and Acta Psychologica Sinica. She has presided over the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund. She has been awarded the National Scholarship, Outstanding Graduate of Peking University, Merit Student of Guanghua School of Management of Peking University, and the Best paper research program of Organizational Behavior in the Shanghai Workshop of IACMR.　

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