Stakeholder enquiry service –
Request for a Eurofound study
Christine Aumayr-Pintar, Eurofound
Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee of the
Hairdressing Sector
25 March 2013
Outline
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Intro on job quality in the hairdressing sector
 Eurofound’s
current work using data from the European working
conditions survey (EWCS) 2010.
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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
Skills and discretion;
Good social environment;
Good physical
environment;
Work intensity
Intrinsic job
quality
Earnings
Job
quality
e.g.: evening/weekend
work; taking flexi-time;
changes in work-schedule
Working
time quality
Prospects
Eurofound 2012: Trends in Job Quality in Europe, based on EWCS 2010
Employment contract;
career advancement;
suspected job loss;
Intrinsic Job Quality (IJQ): Hairdressers vs. rest of the
workforce
Composite index, ranging from 0-100
Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels
Intrinsic Job Quality (IJQ): Skills and discretion
Hairdressers vs. rest of the workforce
Composite index, ranging from 0-100
Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels
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
55.2
58.4
Working time quality
Composite index, ranging from 0-100
Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels
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”
Project proposal – Eurofound’s stakeholder
enquiry service
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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
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How can social partners cooperate to improve the quality
of work and employment in the hairdressing sector?
Guiding question… to be agreed upon or
possible be reformulate in the course of the project
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To create 4 scenarios about the
 strategies
Scope:
can be
limited
further
as
well..
for social partner cooperation to improve the quality of
work and employment in the sector
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)?
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Scenarios are mental models of “possible futures”
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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?
Desk research
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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
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Interactive
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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
To be reflected upon
again by experts
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Contractor will draw up 4 different scenarios
Next steps
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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?
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Thank you for your interest.
Do you have any further questions?
cau@eurofound.europa.eu
Prospects: Hairdressers vs. rest of the workforce
Composite index, ranging from 0-100
Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels
Intrinsic Job Quality (IJQ):
Good social environment: Hairdressers vs. rest
of the workforce
Composite index, ranging from 0-100
Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels
Intrinsic Job Quality (IJQ):
Good physical environment: Hairdressers vs.
rest of the workforce
Composite index, ranging from 0-100
Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels
Intrinsic Job Quality (IJQ):
Work intensity: Hairdressers vs. rest of the workforce
Composite index, ranging from 0-100
Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels
Working time quality:
Hairdressers vs. rest of the workforce
Composite index, ranging from 0-100
Eurofound 2013, Occupational profiles of hairdressers, Ruud Wetzels