Assessment of the Second Year of Personnel Development Project of World Thai Food Business

Abstract

     The objectives of this study were to investigate the effectiveness of the two-course training, the economic outcome and occupation of the participants after training. The data were collected by using 2 sets of questionnaires from 345 first-course participants and 193 of second- course participants, and statistically analysed for percentage and arithmetic mean. The results revealed that before training, 31.6 percent of first-course participants and 23.8 percent of second-course participants were in food business in Thailand, 4.9 percent and 2.6 percent of first-course and second-course participants were in food business in foreign countries. After the training, 51.6 percent of first-course participants and 36.8 percent of second-course participants were in food business in the country, while 10.1 percent and 17.6 percent of first-course and second-course participants were in food business in foreign countries. It was found that both course participants earned more income after training, and more than 50 percent of them wanted to change their occupation to be in food business. For the effectiveness of the training, it was clear that the first-course participants gained more knowledge from 15 lectured lessons of 18 lessons, and gained more knowledge and experience from 11 handson experience of 12 lessons. Besides, the second-course participants gained more knowledge from 18 lectured lessons of 25 lessons and gained more knowledge and experience from 4 hands-on experiences of 6 lessons, and also gained moderate experience from study tour. It was also found that the most important problem was applying for visa to work in foreign countries, this was the most needed.