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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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 67.6Skills and discretion 49.5 53.6Good social environment 85.1 78.7Good 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?• [email protected]
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