Stakeholder enquiry service – Request for a Eurofound study

Christine Aumayr-Pintar, Eurofound

Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee of the Hairdressing Sector

25 March 2013

Outline

• Intro on job quality in the hairdressing sector Eurofound’s current work using data from the European working

conditions survey (EWCS) 2010.

• Outline of a project proposal within EF’s stakeholder enquiry service 2013 Joint request from the EU sectoral social partners 2012 Scenarios of strategies of social partners’ cooperation in the

hairdressing sector to improve the quality of work and employment

Job quality: 4 dimensions

Job quality

Earnings

Prospects

Intrinsic job quality

Working time quality Employment contract;

career advancement; suspected job loss;

Skills and discretion; Good social environment;Good physical environment; Work intensity

e.g.: evening/weekend work; taking flexi-time; changes in work-schedule

Eurofound 2012: Trends in Job Quality in Europe, based on EWCS 2010

Intrinsic Job Quality (IJQ): Hairdressers vs. rest of the workforce

Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels

Composite index, ranging from 0-100

Intrinsic Job Quality (IJQ): Skills and discretionHairdressers vs. rest of the workforce

Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels

Composite index, ranging from 0-100

Overview: job quality of hairdressers and others

Dimension Hairdressers - average Non-Hairdressers - average

Prospects 65.2 64.5

Intrinsic job quality 66.2 67.6

Skills and discretion 49.5 53.6

Good social environment 85.1 78.7

Good physical environment

68 74.6

Work intensity 63.3 64.1

Working time quality 55.2 58.4

Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels

Composite index, ranging from 0-100

The new project proposal…

A first sketch…

“Scenarios of strategies of social partners’ cooperation in the hairdressing sector to improve the quality of work and employment”

working title

Project proposal – Eurofound’s stakeholder enquiry service

• EU Social partners joint request to Eurofound in 2012• First proposal EF: Q4 2013• Second proposal now so as to avoid overlaps with the

COM’s project

Research question and objectives

• How can social partners cooperate to improve the quality of work and employment in the hairdressing sector?

• To create 4 scenarios about the strategies for social partner cooperation to improve the quality of

work and employment in the sector

Guiding question… to be agreed upon or possible be reformulate in the course of the project

Scope: can be limited further

as well..

Why a scenario analysis?

“To deal with the future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us ‘What is’.”

Edward de Bono, Parallel Thinking

“Thinking through [scenario] stories, and talking in depth about their implications, brings each person’s unspoken assumptions about the future to the surface. Scenarios are thus the most powerful vehicles I know for challenging our ‘mental models’ about the world and lifting the ‘blinders’ that limit our creativity and resourcefulness.”

Peter Schwartz, The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World

From: Foresight Horizon Scanning Centre, Government Office for Science, UK. Scenario planning. Guidance notice

What is a scenario (analysis)?

• Scenarios are mental models of “possible futures”

• Qualitative methodology which explicitly takes uncertainty into account, provides space for the involvement of stakeholders, And it can ultimately lead to guidance for action.

It is not: • an attempt to say, which future is more likely• or a forecast of “hard” data …

How will this be achieved?• Map and describe the current and future challenges in relation to the

quality of work (contractor)• Map and describe social partner’s capacities and initiatives

Desk research, existing material: EWCS, REP study, mapping of social partner initiatives at national level; data from the

COMs study (country profiles) Limited to 8 countries for new input• 1-2 expert workshops, including social partner representatives from 8

countries To identify challenges and drivers related to quality of work and employment

in hairdressing and interlinkages Moderated by an external contractor

• Contractor will draw up 4 different scenarios

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To be reflected upon again by experts

Next steps

• EF to discuss with EU level social partners the proposal• EF will launch the tender (April/May?)• Contract likely to be in place by summer• …start of the desk research in Summer• … 1st expert meeting already around the October SSD

meeting?• ….

• Thank you for your interest. • Do you have any further questions?• cau@eurofound.europa.eu

Prospects: Hairdressers vs. rest of the workforce

Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels

Composite index, ranging from 0-100

Intrinsic Job Quality (IJQ): Good social environment: Hairdressers vs. rest

of the workforce

Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels

Composite index, ranging from 0-100

Intrinsic Job Quality (IJQ): Good physical environment: Hairdressers vs.

rest of the workforce

Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels

Composite index, ranging from 0-100

Intrinsic Job Quality (IJQ): Work intensity: Hairdressers vs. rest of the workforce

Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels

Composite index, ranging from 0-100

Working time quality: Hairdressers vs. rest of the workforce

Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels

Composite index, ranging from 0-100