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100			_aBuffat, Aurelien
245			_a''Public on the outside, private on the inside': the organizational hybridization, sense of belonging and identity strategies of the employees of a public unemployment insurance fund in Switzerland
260			_c2014
300			_ap.70-88.
362			_aMar
520			_aA number of studies show that New Public Management reforms have altered the current identity benchmarks of public officials, particularly by hybridizing values or management practices. However, existing studies have largely glossed over the sense of belonging of officials when their organization straddles the concerns of public service and private enterprise, so that the boundary between public and private sector is blurred. The purpose of this article is precisely to explore this sense of belonging in the context of organizational hybridization. It does so by drawing on the results of research conducted among the employees of a public unemployment insurance fund in Switzerland. On the one hand, the analysis shows how much their markers of belonging are hybrid, multiple and constructed in negative terms (with regard to the State), while indicating that the working practices of the employees point to an identity that is nevertheless closely bound with the public sector. On the other hand, the analysis shows that the organization plays strategically with its State status, by exploiting either its private or public identity in line with the needs related to its external image. The article concludes with a discussion of the results highlighting the strategic functionality of the hybrid identity of the actors. - Reproduced.
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
908			_aN
909			_a103805
999			_c103801 _d103801