Purpose – This extended editorial to the Special Issue “Are we having fun yet? A consideration of workplace fun and … engagement” aims to review the current debates on organised “fun at work” and to suggest a framework for understanding workplace … framework for understanding workplace fun and employee engagement offers opportunities for empirical testing. Practical …

corporation. This raises questions about the nature of workplace control, resistance and the meaning of authenticity at work …

Purpose – This paper aims to present exploratory, empirical data from an ethnographic study into workplace humour and … fun. It explores the notion that workplace humour and fun are influenced by the creation of boundaries that either enable … different workplace sectors and environments. Originality/value – Boundaries constructed through social processes are assuming …

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate how generational differences moderate the relationship between workplace fun … and individual workplace outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – The authors review and integrate the literatures on … workplace fun and generational theory and empirically test the interaction effects of generation membership and workplace fun …

, to better understand the organic dynamics of workplace fun. Design/methodology/approach – This is an ethnographic study … description and analysis of organic workplace humour in a contemporary food production setting and offers a typology of joking …

of workplace bullying. The literature, however, is relatively silent on the issue of measuring success of a policy and …

context of workplace bullying. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on a study rooted in van Manen's hermeneutic … phenomenology conducted with agents who witnessed workplace bullying in international‐facing call centres in Mumbai and Bangalore … establish statistical generalisability. Practical implications – Bystander intervention is an important solution to workplace …

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to examine the psychosomatic model of downward workplace bullying in … as a moderator of the bullying‐negative affect relationship. The findings show that the psychosomatic model of workplace … avoid being bullied. Originality/value – The psychosomatic model of workplace bullying was examined cross‐culturally for the …