Humor as a Management Tool: Use in Formal Game Presentations

Abstract

Humor has raised its merry head in simulation game play. During end-of-game formal presentations of strategies and results, game teams entertain as well as analyze by means of jokes and overhead projector cartoons. The evidence of many such occurrences of humor indicate that it serves several purposes as teams report how they managed their simulated companies. Examples of this humor are given and a taxonomy of purposes is developed.