briefing papers for policy makers

e) Older workers must be encouraged to design their own personal careers through the combination of flexible
practise and social/employment security.
5. A concerted effort is required to enhance knowledge and skills exchange and acknowledge “inter-generational
communication” and cooperation.
6. Additional research is needed to improve learning environments in SMEs, including the development of
methods to integrate older workers in learning organisations; the mapping of diversity in competences and
flexible organisations; the identification of both new career patterns in late professional life and the age
differences in the mastery of information and communication technology; the development of learning and
teaching methods suitable for low-educated and older workers with emphasis on learning style and age
differences.
Further information
Full title of the project: “Working Life Changes and Training of Older Workers” (WORKTOW), final report
completed in November 2001.
Final report published in 2002 and available at VOX, Trondheim, Norway. Phone +47 – 73 99 08 40, Fax. +47 – 73
99 08 50, E-mail: vox@vox.no.
The Final Report and results of this project are available through the electronic version of this report at:
http://www.cordis.lu/citizens/publications.htm (under Reports)
Key Publications
Final report: Tikkanen, T., Lahn, L., Withnall, A. Ward, P & Lyng, K., Working life changes and training of older workers,
Trondheim: VOX & European Commission, 2002.
Other:
Danielsen & Serk-Hansen, Companies in change: A report from modern working life, (Original title in Norwegian: Bedriftet i
endring: En rapport fra det moderne arbeidslivet), Søkelys på Arbeidslivet, 17, 2, pp. 105-113, 2000.
Danielsen & Serk-Hansen, About selling confidence, Paper presented at the Anniversary Conference of the Norwegian
Antrophological Society, (Lillehammer), 13-14 May 2000.
Danielsen & Serck-Hansen, Om tillitt og salg av forsikringer, Sosiologisk Tidsskrift.
Iversen, Lauvdal, Lahn, & Eikeland, Livsfasetilpasset personalpolitikk, Rapport 5/2000, Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet/Work
Research Institute.(Lifephase adapted personnel policy), Oslo, 2000.
Lahn, L.C., Ikääntyvät oppijat oppivassa yhteiskunnassa (Ageing learners in a learning society), in P. Sallila (ed.) Oppiminen ja
ikääntyminen (Learning and ageing). The Finnish yearbook of adult education research. Kansanvalistusseura ja
Aikuiskasvatuksen tutkimusseura, pp. 41-72, 2000.
Lahn, L.C., Tacit professional knowledge and the learning environment of adult workers, In Tøsse, S. et al. (eds.), Corporate and
non-formal learning, Nordic Yearbook of Adult Education, Trondheim, Tapir, 1998.
Paloniemi, S. & Tikkanen, T., Self-reported age-effect on learning and competence development, Paper presented in ESREA
conference Adult Education and the Labour Market VI, Seville, Spain, 19-22 October 2000. Available in ERIC ED-database.
Tikkanen, T., Managements’ and employees’ views on learning culture in SMEs: A cross-national comparison, Paper presented
at the III International conference on researching work and learning, 25-27 July, 2003, Tampere, Finland.
Tikkanen, T., “Learning at work in technology intensive environments”, Journal of Workplace Learning, 14(3), 88-97, 2002.
Tikkanen, T., The Changing Workplace and European Workforce Models on Life-Long Learning, paper presented at the
Minnesota Gerontological Society Spring Conference, April 2002, St. Paul, MN, USA.
Tikkanen, T., Learning interventions in small and medium sized companies, paper presented at the 3 rd Conference on HRD
Research and Practice Across Europe, 25-26 January 2002, Edinburgh, UK. Proceedings available on CD-ROM.
Tikkanen, T., Experiencing the changes brought by IT and their consequences, in S. Tøsse et al. (Editorial Committee) Reforms
and policy - Adult education in Nordic countries, Trondheim, Tapir, pp. 161-182, 2000.
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