What's So Bad about CC-ing the Boss?

Authors

Andy Cullison, DePauw University
Kate Berry, DePauw UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-27-2020

Abstract

Could there be anything wrong with looping your boss into an email thread? Isn't complete transparency a good thing? Our resident ethicist Andy Cullison and Getting Ethics to Work producer Kate Berry discuss a workplace dilemma in which an employee CCs his boss in an email exchange with a co-worker. On this episode and every episode, we dig into complicated stories from the workplace and discuss the underlying moral problems these cases bring up. Have a workplace dilemma you need some help with? Send your story to our producer Kate at katherineberry@depauw.edu. For the episode’s transcript, click here.

Shownotes

• "CC-ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted" by David De Cremer
  • More about David De Cremer
• Related articles:
  • "Collaborative Overload" by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele and Adam Grant
  • "The Passive-Aggressive Email Tactic That All Office Workers Abhor" by Alison Green
• More about Andy Cullison
• What is "ethics"?

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Recommended Citation

Cullison, Andy and Berry, Kate, "What's So Bad about CC-ing the Boss?" (2020). Getting Ethics to Work Podcast. 2, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/getting-ethics-to-work/2