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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me guess you are female and your boss is male.[/quote]

I think this is highly likely and that OP believes it is a sign of sexism.  :)  [/quote]

Well in my organization, I am male in a supervisory position and my boss in a manager's position is female.  It is assumed that due to my role that I will provide her a lot of input to do her job.  Over the last year, there have been dozens and dozens of cases where she has taken something that I've written and has submitted it with her signature on it as if it came from her.  She sometimes asks me to write the text for her for a given message because I'm a better writer than she is and I have broader technical knowledge than she does.  You know what?  It's part of my job to make her look good.  And believe me, it doesn't go unnoticed that she has been considerably more well-versed and polished since I started in this job.

I've been in my field for over 25 years, so I know what the business is.  Your role is to make your boss look good and keep him/her informed on what (s)he needs to know and present.  It's really, really annoying when people take up a lot of time trying to acknowledge all the people that provided input that your boss uses.  It's a company/business/agency that needs to work; it's not the Oscars.

Your acknowledgment comes in your annual review and when your boss needs to recommend someone to do a job and you are assigned the job ahead of others.  You know that your input is valuable when another boss comes to your boss and asks for help and you are the one that your boss says is the go-to person for X job.  Or when your boss needs some input quick and you are the person they look to to give them that input and information.  The better you make your boss look, the better you are doing your job and it will be noticed and acknowledged, but just don't expect that acknowledgment for every instance where your boss uses information or material you provided.  That would be tedious for everyone involved and is only reserved when it is very distinctive, and made a huge impact, e.g. "we just won this multi-million dollar contract thanks to Larla who spent two weekends rolling together the key elements needed for the bid and did about half of the writing herself.  Thanks, Larla![/quote]

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