Research

With an aim toward understanding the root causes of pandemic-exacerbated burnout, we document the experiences of 93 healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and, in doing so, explore an important link between burnout and work-nonwork boundaries. We find the contextual shock of the pandemic resulted in an increased incidence of boundary violations—undesired disruptions between work and other important life domains such as personal and family life. These boundary violations—which we classify as physical, temporal, or knowledge-based—frequently corresponded to greater reports of burnout manifested by exhaustion, detachment, and inefficacy. 

*Selected for the 2022 Honor Roll for Responsible Research for Business and Management.

Manuscripts in Review

Rapp, D.J., Hughey, J.H., & Kreiner, G.E. Dirty Heroes? How Healthcare Workers Construed Dual Social Evaluations During the Pandemic (stage: 2nd Round of Revise and Resubmit). Academy of Management Journal.

Research Projects in Process

Hughey, J.H., Brimhall, C., & Rapp, D.J., Myers, C.G. The Heterogeneity of Sensebreaking. Targeting Administrative Science Quarterly in August 2023. (stage: Working Paper)

Rapp, D.J., Monnot, R., Hughey, J.H. Up and Down on the Farm: The Role of (In)efficacy in Strong Identification Work. (Working Paper)  

Rapp, D.J., Monnot, R., Hughey, J.H., Kreiner, G.E. Navigating the Stigma of Mental Health within Occupations. (stage: Working Paper) 

Mihelcic, C.A., Cannon, D.O., Rapp, D.J., Kreiner, G.E. Identity Transition in Disability Transitions Program. (stage: Data Analysis)