Comparison of Harvested and Nonharvested Painted Turtle Populations

Painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) are commercially harvested in large numbers in Minnesota for sale to biological supply companies and the pet trade. We investigated the possible effects of this harvest by comparing size, demography, and catch rates of painted turtles in 12 harvested and 10 nonharvested painted turtle populations in 2001 and 2002. We correlated turtle catch rates to harvest status, and harvested lakes had a lower catch-per-unit-effort than nonharvested lakes. Harvest had minimal effect on the size of turtles captured, and we found no significant differences in the count of male:female:juvenile turtles among lakes of different harvest status. We suggest that painted turtle populations likely have been impacted by harvester activities, but it was unclear whether the current harvest is sustainable. Further work is needed to determine whether there are any long-term effects on painted turtle populations

Motivation Research in Hospitality between 1990 and 2001: A Prescriptive Review of the Literature

Employee motivation is one of the most studied issues in organizational behavior, and is the subject of an incredible number of prescriptive and descriptive articles in the hospitality press. This emphasis is made with good reason: Understanding and using motivation techniques is central for managing people in general, and managing people is a central concern for the hospitality industry. Further, customer satisfaction has been shown to be strongly affected by customers’ perception of employee effort (Mohr & Bitner, 1995), and effort is what motivation is about. The last decade has seen consolidation and steady advances in our understanding and ability to apply several different theories of employee motivation. Much of the relevant empirical work, however, has taken place outside of the hospitality industry. Research within the hospitality industry has tended to draw on a relatively small pool of motivational concepts

The Integrity Dividend: How Excellent Hospitality Leadership Drives Bottom-Line Results

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Practitioners of a New Profession? A Discussion Summary of the First Dispute Systems Design Conference

[Excerpt] Participants at the first Dispute Systems Design Conference, held April 7, 1989 at Northwestern University, were excited and expectant. We suspected that we had the practical beginnings of a new field, but we weren’t sure whether or not we would be able to apply each other’s experiences to our own. In a way, we were looking for a common language or frame of reference that would enable us to learn from one another. Ury, Brett, and Goldbeig’s work in “Getting Disputes Resolved” was to be put to the test as to whether it could initiate that frame of reference for this diverse group of practitioners

Behavioral Integrity: The Perceived Alignment Between Managers’ Words and Deeds as a Research Focus

This paper focuses on the perceived pattern of alignment between a manager\u27s words and deeds, with special attention to promise keeping, and espoused and enacted values. It terms this perceived pattern of alignment “Behavioral Integrity.” The literatures on trust, psychological contracts, and credibility combine to suggest important consequences for this perception, and literatures on hypocrisy, social accounts, social cognition, organizational change, and management fashions suggest key antecedents to it. The resulting conceptual model highlights an issue that is problematic in today\u27s managerial environment, has important organizational outcomes, and is relatively unstudied

Interviewing Job Applicants: How to Get beyond First Impressions

The traditional approach to interviewing job candidates is hardly more effective than drawing a candidate’s name from a hat. But structuring an interview can maximize its predictive power

Predictors of Male and Female Servers’ Average Tip Earnings

Tips represent a substantial portion of restaurant waiters’ and waitresses’ incomes. We report a study that examines several potential predictors of the differences in servers’ average tip earnings. Our results indicate that servers earn larger average sales-adjusted tips if they are attractive females, better service providers, and high self-monitors. However, these effects hold up only for evening tips. None of the variables in this study predicted servers’ average lunch tips. The methodological, theoretical, and managerial implications of these findings are discussed

Tertiary Climate Change and the Diversification of the Amazonian Gecko Genus Gonatodes (Sphaerodactylidae, Squamata)

The genus Gonatodes is a monophyletic group of small-bodied, diurnal geckos distributed across northern South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. We used fragments of three nuclear genes (RAG2, ACM4, and c-mos) and one mitochondrial gene (16S) to estimate phylogenetic relationships among Amazonian species of Gonatodes. We used Penalized Likelihood to estimate timing of diversification in the genus. Most cladogenesis occurred in the Oligocene and early Miocene and coincided with a burst of diversification in other South American animal groups including mollusks, birds, and mammals. The Oligocene and early Miocene were periods dominated by dramatic climate change and Andean orogeny and we suggest that these factors drove the burst of cladogenesis in Gonatodes geckos as well as other taxa. A common pattern in Amazonian taxa is a biogeographic split between the eastern and western Amazon basin. We observed two clades with this spatial distribution, although large differences in timing of divergence between the east–west taxon pairs indicate that these divergences were not the result of a common vicariant event

The Eye Of The Beholder: Hotel Company CEO Perceptions Of Threats And Opportunities

The chief executive officers (CEOs) of 96 multisite, U.S.-based hotel owner/operator companies were interviewed and asked to describe the dominant upcoming threats and opportunities they perceived for their segment. Responses converged in describing two major threats (overbuilding and economic downturn) but were far more divergent in descriptions of opportunities. This pattern may emerge from the nature of threats and opportunities, from quirks of information dissemination and processing in the hotel industry, or from systematic biases in the perception of CEOs. Our data provide strong evidence of the impact of segment on threat and opportunity perceptions, as is appropriate to a rational model. Tests of potentially influential factors at the CEO and team levels provided no evidence of bias