TY  - JOUR
A1  - Seyfried, Markus
A1  - Reith, Florian
T1  - The seven deadly sins of quality management: trade-offs and implications for further research
JF  - Quality in higher education
N2  - Quality management in higher education is generally discussed with reference to commendable outcomes such as success, best practice, improvement or control. This paper, though, focuses on the problems of organising quality management. It follows the narrative of the seven deadly sins, with each ‘sin’ illustrating an inherent trade-off or paradox in the implementation of internal quality management in teaching and learning in higher education institutions. Identifying the trade-offs behind these sins is essential for a better understanding of quality management as an organisational problem.
KW  - Quality management
KW  - higher education
KW  - governance
KW  - trade-offs
KW  - teaching
KW  - research
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2019.1683943
SN  - 1353-8322
SN  - 1470-1081
VL  - 25
IS  - 3
SP  - 289
EP  - 303
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mazza, Valeria
A1  - Jacob, Jens
A1  - Dammhahn, Melanie
A1  - Zaccaroni, Marco
A1  - Eccard, Jana
T1  - Individual variation in cognitive style reflects foraging and antipredator strategies in a small mammal
JF  - Scientific Reports
N2  - Balancing foraging gain and predation risk is a fundamental trade-off in the life of animals. Individual strategies to acquire, process, store and use information to solve cognitive tasks are likely to affect speed and flexibility of learning, and ecologically relevant decisions regarding foraging and predation risk. Theory suggests a functional link between individual variation in cognitive style and behaviour (animal personality) via speed-accuracy and risk-reward trade-offs. We tested whether cognitive style and personality affect risk-reward trade-off decisions posed by foraging and predation risk. We exposed 21 bank voles (Myodes glareolus) that were bold, fast learning and inflexible and 18 voles that were shy, slow learning and flexible to outdoor enclosures with different risk levels at two food patches. We quantified individual food patch exploitation, foraging and vigilance behaviour. Although both types responded to risk, fast animals increasingly exploited both food patches, gaining access to more food and spending less time searching and exercising vigilance. Slow animals progressively avoided high-risk areas, concentrating foraging effort in the low-risk one, and devoting >50% of visit to vigilance. These patterns indicate that individual differences in cognitive style/personality are reflected in foraging and anti-predator decisions that underlie the individual risk-reward bias.
KW  - animal personality
KW  - bank voles
KW  - behavioral flexibility
KW  - coping styles
KW  - exploratory-behavior
KW  - mustelid predation
KW  - social information
KW  - stress
KW  - trade-offs
KW  - voles clethrionomys-glareolus
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46582-1
SN  - 2045-2322
VL  - 9
PB  - Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
CY  - London
ER  -