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 supervisor very often, they may be doing so strategically, 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 tactics 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 pushier employees when promoting members of staff.
相关单词：supervisor
supervisor解释：n.监督人，管理人，检查员，督学，主管，导师
supervisor例句：
Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说，我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。
相关单词：strategically
strategically解释：adv.战略上，战略性地
strategically例句：
The fence is strategically sited to prevent anyone getting onto the beach. 这个围栏的地点选择得很有策略，可以阻止任何人到海滩上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
There are candles strategically placed—just in case we have another power cut. 我们把蜡烛放在合适的地方，以防再停电。 来自《简明英汉词典》
相关单词：tactics
tactics解释：n.策略；战术，兵法
tactics例句：
They planned the tactics for the next day's battle.他们制定好第二天的战术。
He decided to switch tactics.他决定改变策略。
相关单词：pushier
pushier解释：adj.有进取心的( pushy的比较级 )；固执己见的，一意孤行的
pushier例句：
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