'A tiger's tale of toys, tea time and tributes': The enhancement of employee morale through workplace celebration

“The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.” — Mark Twain (New York Times, 1905).;The question to be explored in this project is, “How can organizations use celebration to enhance employee morale?”;When celebration becomes part of organizational culture it awakens the spirit and companies can in turn reap benefits such as improved employee morale, commitment and hard work.;While conducting the research for this project, no studies were found that specifically examined the relationship between celebration in the workplace and employee morale. Though employee morale has been studied in other contexts such as productivity, commitment, absenteeism etc., consultants and authors make the connective and perhaps assumptive statement that staff morale and celebration in the workplace are directly associated. While this implication may be the case, no known research has shown this relationship. Though this qualitative study will not attempt to show a causal effect, it will consider how celebration can be used to enhance staff morale as perceived by employees in a number of organizations representing four culture types (Deal & Kennedy, 1982). In addition, it will consider any similarities and differences in celebration practices and morale between the four culture groups. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).