The mythological power of hospitality leaders? : a hermeneutical investigation of their reliance on storytelling

Aims to explore how senior leaders in the hospitality industry use storytelling to disseminate their vision to employees. To illustrate how hermeneutics can be used as a method for the interpretation of qualitative data in hospitality management research. A purposeful criterion based sample design was constructed and after a period of sensitisation to their organisations, twenty phenomenological interviews with high level international hospitality industry leaders were conducted. These interviews are analysed using a hermeneutical framework. Storytelling is being used as a strategic method of communication and is fundamental to leadership in the contemporary commercial hospitality industry; stories are used to strengthen and revitalise current norms and values. Stories penetrate organisations and tap into the emotions of employees in order to inspire action and understanding.Hermeneutics is applied clearly and concisely and the paper demonstrates how hermeneutics could easily be adapted for other projects. Clear direction for further research is suggested, exploring the efficaciousness of stories from the listeners' rather than narrator's perspective. This paper does not teach managers how to tell stories, or even make them better storytellers; however, it highlights how storytelling is used by leaders at the apex of the commercial hospitality industry to develop and enhance organisational culture. Within hospitality management research, storytelling has mostly been ignored both as a management tool and as a form of data collection; similarly hermeneutics as a means of data analysis does not feature in the hospitality management literature

Leadership and storytelling : perspectives from senior hospitality management

This paper presents initial findings on how twenty leaders, at the highest level in the international hospitality industry, use stories to create, disseminate and sustain corporate culture within their organisations. The paper focuses on a method for the application of hermeneutics and demonstrates, through analysing phenomenological interviews with leaders, that storytelling is an important strategic method of communication. Not only does the paper present insights on how storytelling is fundamental to leadership in the contemporary commercial hospitality industry it also reveals, through empirical research, how stories can be used as a data source

1976 Experimental Summary

1. Cultivar Evaluation in High Rainfall Areas a) Midland B/Seaton Park/Yarloop/Larisa - 72MT29 b) Trikkala evaluation trial - 76MT3 2. Pasture deterioration - high rainfall areas. Variety Daliak. Dinninup. Woogenellup. Yarloop. Mt. Barker. Nangeela. Midland B. Toodyay C. Guildford D. Jarrahdale B. Trikkala. Larisa. a) Phytotron experiments. Dinn. x (Daliak x Tood. C) (av. of 6 crosses) Dinn. x (Mid. B x Nangeela) (av. of 3 crosses Daliak x (Mid. B x Nangeela) (av. of 4 crosses) b) Field experiments - 76MA8, 76DE3. 3. Lucerne productivity and persistence - 74E3-Sheep, 74E4-Cattle, 74E3-Sheep, 74E4-Cattle, 75AL30-Cattle. 4. Effects of saline irrigation water-on pasture production

A reiterative method for calculating the early bactericidal activity of antituberculosis drugs.

Studies of early bactericidal activity (EBA) are important in the rapid evaluation of new antituberculosis drugs. Historically, these have concentrated on the log fall in the viable count in sputum during the first 48 hours of therapy. In this paper, we provide a mathematical model that suggests that the viable count in sputum follows an exponential decay curve with the equation V = S + Me(-kt) (where V is the viable count, M the population of bacteria susceptible to the test drug, S the population susceptible only to sterilizing agents, t the day of sputum collection as related to start of therapy, k the rate constant for the bacteria killed each day, and e the Napierian constant). We demonstrate that data from clinical trials fits the exponential decay model. We propose that future EBA studies should be performed by measuring daily quantitative counts for at least 5 days. We also propose that the comparison of the early bactericidal activity of antituberculosis drugs should be evaluated using the time taken to reduce the viable count by 50% (vt(50)). A further reiterative refinement following a rule set based on statistically the best fit to the exponential decay model is described that will allow investigators to identify anomalous results and thus enhance the accuracy in measuring early bactericidal activity

Analytical results for a Fokker-Planck equation in the small noise limit

We present analytical results for the lowest cumulants of a stochastic process described by a Fokker-Planck equation with nonlinear drift. We show that, in the limit of small fluctuations, the mean, the variance and the covariance of the process can be expressed in compact form with the help of the Lambert W function. As an application, we discuss the interplay of noise and nonlinearity far from equilibrium.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure

Pasture deterioration - high rainfall areas

a. Pasture deterioration - High rainfall areas - A farm at Karridale (near Augusta) exhibiting classic pasture deterioration symptoms was closely monitored throughout 1974. This farm has paddocks ranging from relatively newly sown pastures with a high clover percentage, few weeds and high dry matter production (resown 1973 and 1974), through to extremely poor pastures with as little as 3 % clover and a weed component of over 80% (resown 1970 and 1971)... b. Midland B competition studies (69Mt19) -This grazing trial was sown in 1969 to plots of pure Midland B, pure Woogenellup and to three mixtures of the two cultivars. Part of the area was cropped in 1971 but has been grazed with the rest of the trial since then... c. Midland B/Seaton Park /Yarloop/39313Y grazing trial (72Mt29) - In a non-waterlogged environment at Mt. Barker both Seaton Park and Midland B have successfully competed with Yarloop under grazing. Seaton Park has outperformed Midland B with both dry matter production and plant establishment, while 39313Y (Larissa) has produced far more dry matter than Yarloop late in the season although plant counts are very similar... It is proposed to crop part of each plot during 1975. Regeneration of each variety after cropping will be measured for at least one season

Clover scorch screening, root rot screening, bluegreen aphid screening, red legged earthmite screening experiments, evaluation of Medicago murex

Clover scorch screening. Root rot screening. Bluegreen aphid screening. Red legged earth mite screening experiments. Evaluation of Medicago murex

Cultivar evaluation in high rainfall areas

1. Trikkala Evaluation Trial 76MT3. A joint trial with D.A. Nicholas. The trial\u27s aim is to compare the competitive ability under grazing of Trikkala and Yarloop clover on a waterlogged new land site. The competitive ability to be measured in the presence and absence of clover scorch. (Kabatiella caulivora). 2. Pasture deterioration. Field experiments. Three trials established in 1975 to determine whether various cultivation techniques could control root rot and. subsequent pasture deterioration have now concluded. 3. Lucerne productivity and persistence. 4. Effects of saline irrigation water on pasture production. During the 1976/77 irrigation season the effects on pasture production of water from the Wellington (850mg/l of salt) and Stirling (260 mg/l) Dams was measured for the third year. Phytotron Experiments. TABLE 1. Trikkala evaluation trial seed set 1976/77. TABLE 2. Dry matter production (kg/ha) in 7 weeks Spring 1977. TABLE 3. Cultivation trials - 1977 plant density and dry matter production (7 weeks). Karridale, Walpole, Narrikup. TABLE 4. Susceptibility of sub clover varieties to root rot infection after four weeks growth. TABLE 5. Lucerne productivity and persistence. Trial 74E3 - Sheep, 74E4 - Cattle, 75AL30 - Cattle. TABLE 6. Pasture Yield and Clover Chloride concentration