Remember the episode in FRIENDS when Rachel feels that she will miss out on a promotion because of this other colleague who went on smoke breaks with their manager? There might be a grain of truth in it after all.
A study released on Monday said that male smokers who smoke with male managers are promoted faster than those who do not share this habit with their boss. This might also mean that their women colleagues might get left behind for not possessing the habit.
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, released a paper which states that men benefit from having a male manager, while women have about the same promotion rate regardless of the gender of their boss.
These findings are in line with earlier research that showed that workers with white, male sponsors tend to do better than other groups in getting promoted.
The study focused on data from an unidentified large financial institution and studied the effect of manager rotation, controlling for differences in effort and output. The research conducted by Zoe Cullen of Harvard Business School and Ricardo Perez-Truglia of the UCLA Anderson School of Management showed that owing to this trend in behaviour, women often get left behind when it comes to being appointed to executive positions.
The report also holds true the notion that people tend to favour proteges who are similar to themselves.
