The emergence of hybrid professional roles: GPs and secondary school teachers in a context of public sector reform
研究了1965年以来荷兰医疗和教育大规模改革中,全科医生和中学教师如何形成混合专业角色,发现角色期望是通过改革模式的累积而非替代形成的,且行业间存在显著差异。
Responding to recent calls for more context and history in studying (semi-)professionals in the public sector, this article examines the emergence of hybrid professional roles along with large-scale reforms of Dutch healthcare and education since 1965. Using a theoretical framework based on public management literature and key professional attributes, the article shows how hybrid role expectations are developed by accumulation rather than replacement of successive reform models. Within a single national context, it also highlights considerable sectoral variation in how reform affects professionals’ roles, suggesting a complex mutual relationship between reform and professions rather than a one-sided policy impact.