In the present study, we examined the impact of humor’s positive functions on the perception of a job’s meaningfulness. We argued that liberating and stress-relieving humor act as job resources enhancing job crafting to increase social and structural resources to experience meaningfulness. We hypothesized that crafting the job to increase structural and social resources would mediate the link between organizational humor functions (i.e., liberating and stress-relieving) and meaningfulness. We conducted a cross-sectional study among 200 Turkish employees from different occupations. Our results revealed that increasing structural resources mediated the relationship between liberating humor and meaningfulness, while this mediation was partially for stress-relieving humor. The mediating role of increasing social resources was partial and conditional for both types of organizational humor functions. The practical and theoretical implications have been discussed from a positive organizational scholarship perspective.

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组织幽默使我们的工作更有意义：通过制作工作资源进行调解

在本研究中，我们检验了幽默的积极功能对工作意义感知的影响。我们认为，解放和缓解压力的幽默可以作为工作资源，增强工作塑造，增加社会和结构资源来体验意义。我们假设精心设计工作以增加结构和社会资源将调节组织幽默功能（即解放和缓解压力）与意义之间的联系。我们对来自不同职业的 200 名土耳其员工进行了横断面研究。我们的研究结果表明，结构性资源的增加介导了释放幽默和意义之间的关系，而这种中介部分是为了缓解压力的幽默。对于两种类型的组织幽默功能，增加社会资源的中介作用是部分的和有条件的。从积极的组织学术角度讨论了实践和理论意义。