Tammy Rapp

Dr. Tammy Rapp is the Robert H. Freeman Professor of Management at Ohio University. Her research focuses on the factors that support team effectiveness, with specific interest in team processes, emergent states, team leadership, and multiple team memberships. Dr. Rapp's research has been published in journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Leadership Quarterly, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. She serves as a Senior Associate Editor for Group & Organization Management, as well as Editor of the annual special Conceptual Issue for that journal. She is a member of the Academy of Management, Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup), and Society for Human Resource Management. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut.

Selected Publications

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• Tammy L. Rapp. "Team charters: Benefits and guidelines for development," Organizational Dynamics (2025).
• Tammy L. Rapp.  "Team emergent states," In Oxford Bibliographies in Management. Oxford University Press (2025).
• Dan Bachrach, Tammy L. Rapp, Jessica L. Ogilvie, and Adam Rapp. “It’s About Time (Management)!: Role Overload as a Bridge Explaining Relationships between Helping, Voice, and Objective Sales Performance,” Journal of Business Research (2024).
• Adam Rapp and Tammy L. Rapp. “Team Selling: A Review, Implications, and an Agenda for Sales Team Research,” Journal of Professional Selling & Sales Management 43, no. 4 (2023): 289-306.
• Sal Mistry, Brad Kirkman, Ozias A. Moore, Andrew Hanna, and Tammy L. Rapp. "Too many teams? Examining the impact of multiple team memberships and permanent team identification on employees' identity strain, cognitive depletion, and turnover," Personnel Psychology 76, no. 3 (2023): 885-912.
• Dan Bachrach, Tammy L. Rapp, Adam A. Rapp, and Jessica L. Ogilvie. "Too much" self-efficacy" Understanding the curvilinear consequences of between-person self-efficacy through a moderated-mediation model of perceived proximity and employee effort," Group & Organization Management48, no. 6 (2023): 1544-1581.
• Tammy L. Rapp, M. Travis Maynard, Monique Domingo, and Elizabeth Klock. “Team emergent states: What has emerged in the literature over 20 years," Small Group Research 52, no. 1 (2021): 68-102.
• M. Travis Maynard, John E. Mathieu, Tammy L. Rapp, Lucy Gilson, and Catherine Kleiner. “Team leader coaching intervention: An investigation of the impact on team processes and performance within a surgical context,” Journal of Applied Psychology (2020).
• Tammy L. Rapp and John E. Mathieu, “Team and individual influences on members' identification and performance per membership in multiple team membership arrangements,” Journal of Applied Psychology104, no. 3 (2019): 303-320.
• Tammy L. Rapp, Lucy L. Gilson, John E. Mathieu, and Tom Ruddy, “Leading empowered teams: An examination of the role of external team leaders and team coaches,” Leadership Quarterly 27, no. 1 (2016): 109-123.
• Tammy L. Rapp, Adam A. Rapp, Dan G. Bachrach, and Ryan Mullins, “The role of team goal monitoring in the curvilinear relationship between team efficacy and team performance,” Journal of Applied Psychology 99, no. 5 (2014): 976-987.
• Adam A. Rapp, Dan G. Bachrach, and Tammy L. Rapp, “The influence of time management skill on the curvilinear relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and task performance,” Journal of Applied Psychology 98, no. 4 (2013): 668-677.
• M. Travis Maynard, John E. Mathieu, Tammy L. Rapp, and Lucy L. Gilson, “Something(s) old and something(s) new: Modeling drivers of global virtual team effectiveness,” Journal of Organizational Behavior 33, no. 3 (2012): 342-365.
• John E. Mathieu and Tammy L. Rapp, “Laying the foundation for successful team performance trajectories: The roles of team charters and deliberate plans,” Journal of Applied Psychology 94, no. 1 (2009): 90-103.
• John E. Mathieu, M. Travis Maynard, Tammy L. Rapp, and Lucy L. Gilson, “Team effectiveness 1997-2007: A review of recent advancements and a glimpse into the future,” Journal of Management 34, no. 3 (2008): 410-476.

Awards

• Research Impact Award, Ohio University Management Department (2025)
• Best Symposium Finalist, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, OB Division  (2024)
• Ohio University Research Committee/Baker Fund Grant (2024)
• Faculty Summer Research Grant, Ohio University, College of Business (2024)
• Research Seed Grant, Ohio University, College of Business (2024)
• Excellence in Research Recognition, Ohio University, College of Business (2024)
• Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division (2023)
• Excellence in Research Recognition, Ohio University, College of Business (2023)
• Graduate Teaching Award, Ohio University College of Business (2022)
• Fellow, Faculty Fellowship Program in Israel (2022)
• Excellence in Research Recognition, Ohio University, College of Business (2022)
• Research Seed Grant, Ohio University, College of Business (2022)
• Research Impact Award, Ohio University College of Business (2021)
• Excellence in Research Recognition, Ohio University, College of Business (2021)
• Outstanding Reviewer, Group & Organization Management (2020)
• Faculty Excellence in Intellectual Contributions, Ohio University, College of Business (2020)
• Excellence in Research Recognition, Ohio University, College of Business (2020)
• Highest Ranked Journal Article, Ohio University, Department of Management (2019)
• Excellence in Research Recognition, Ohio University, College of Business (2019)
• Research Seed Grant, Ohio University, College of Business (2019)
• Robert H. Freeman Professorship: Ohio University, College of Business (2018)
• Research Impact Award, Ohio University Department of Management (2018)
• Research Seed Grant, Ohio University, College of Business (2018)
• Extra Effort Award, Critical Leadership Role, Ohio University, College of Business Women’s Group (2018)
• Research Seed Grant, Ohio University, College of Business (2017)
• Scholarly Impact Award, Journal of Management (2013)