Shazia Anayat2025-08-072025-08-072020https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/4603While existing literature has studied and defined the key determinant of humor in multiple ways that leader’s humor affects employees’ behavior but it offered scarce insights into the empirical evidences regarding the fundamental mechanisms that describe how the leader’s practice of using positive humor affects job stress (see, e.g., Yam, Christian, Wei, Liao, & Nai, 2018), a serious threat for employees and organizations (Oktug, 2017). So drawing from the notion of effective event theory and cognitive appraisal theory the current study has attempted to examine the effects of leader’s positive humor on job stress of employee, with mechanism of psychological resilience and boundary effects of power distance orientation of employees.en-USThesis