Showing off - or showing a colleague up - by copying management into an email thread is becoming more common, according to a study from a Cambridge scholar. 

 

一位剑桥学者表示，通过把邮件抄送给管理人员，从而推销自己或把某位同事比下去的方式，已越来越普遍。

 

Professor David De Cremer, of Cambridge University's Judge Business School, found that workers who regularly CC, or 'carbon copy,' their boss into email replies do so to unsettle their co-workers. 

 

'This finding suggests that when your co-workers copy your supervisor¹ very often, they may be doing so strategically², as they consciously know what the effect will be on you,' he wrote in the Harvard Business Review. 

 

Men who 'have no shame' are far more likely to engage these underhand tactics³ than women, according to Professor Tom Jackson of Loughborough University. 

 

'Anecdotally from our research I would say that males are much more focused on doing this. Females might know how to do it but maybe stop short of actually doing it. 

 

'Males have no shame - they just go ahead and do it,' he said.

 

The method does seem to work, he added, because managers often remember pushier⁴ employees when promoting members of staff.

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