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With the emergence of previous 'soft skills' such as empathy, emotional intelligence, compassion, and listening as important leadership qualities in the 21st century, there is an increased need to cultivate qualities that have long been suppressed. Humor is one of them. It is not just pleasant for interpersonal relations, but gets absorbed with more eagerness, and has a healthy effect. The 75 stories in Teaching Leadership and Organizational Behavior through Humor deal with issues in a broad scope of settings, making this book not just useful in higher education, but also for coaches, trainers, and students in corporate workshops. Read, smile, laugh, contemplate, and get into action!

Authentic leadership -- The four quadrant labyrinth : a life-giving tool for organizations -- The self reflection exercise : finding meaning -- Whole body learning -- Using creative drawings to visualize leadership -- Survey of managerial style -- Leadership and changing work environments -- Workplace spirituality -- Spirituality in the workplace -- Contemplating meaningful work -- Organizational values integration reflection -- Meditation on work as a calling -- Death awareness exercise -- Understanding stress and developing resiliency to stress -- Spiritual lifeline : an integrative exercise -- Role plays of conflicts commonly faced by undergraduate students -- Appreciative inquiry -- Conversations of mutual understanding : deconstructing silos -- Dialogue circle : an exercise in gendered introspection & reflection -- Dialogue circle : an exercise in embracing racial/ethnic diversity -- Traffic light exercise -- The preferred classroom exercise -- Stepping outside the comfort zone -- Ethical leadership and emotional intelligence -- Ethics and emotional intelligence -- Personal values reflection -- Perspective is everything -- Guided visualizations -- What motivates me? -- Life game

The purpose of this work is to enhance understanding and the overall learning experience in OB, and ultimately, to help shape a more conscious workforce of people who have what it takes to succeed during uncertain times despite the ebb and flow of the market.

Storytelling is a powerful and effective teaching tool, yet management professors often overlook its use. A good story can illustrate management principles such as decision-making, leadership, group dynamics, power and politics in a way that captures students' attention and enhances memory. €This book is designed to provide teachers in Organizational Behavior and management courses, as well as corporate workshops, with a highly effective way to address important issues in modern-days' management and organizational behavior-related issues.€ As a unique, non-traditional, OB-oriented book geared towards flexible leadership, professors from universities around the world offer a series of thought-provoking, motivating, growth-oriented, stories that will help readers to tap into their internal locus of control.