In today s competitive global environment career educations are found to be one of the best approaches of providing individual with skills and knowledge to a specific labor market. Culinary Arts education program is offering to train individuals to work in the vast sector of hospitality industry which are still requires significant amount of young trained professional. There has been a positive development in culinary education and demand for culinary practitioners in New Zealand, especially since the growth of the tourism industry, large sporting events and the popularity of New Zealand as a...

Being profitable and competitive is always a priority for firms regardless of the sizes. The quest for productivity and excellence performance has forced firms to look internally into many factors. Firms are bound to minimize risks that incur operation costs such as high scraps inventory. The use of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) practices in manufacturing operations is now recognized as a competitive advantage in eliminating the non-added value or minimizing the interruptions to the production process to enhance firm performance. This monograph highlights the empirical investigation on...