Managing for Efficiency And Effectiveness
Centre Number: 821817 | Centre Name: Southpoint Education International
Learner Name: Nadia V. Neely-Russell

Introduction
Operating a small family owned chain of Jamaican style cuisine restaurants is nothing short of daunting. It takes a lot of hard work and team of dedicated staff, to execute the goals set out by Top Level management.

I work for Negril Café. It’s a small, but busy chain of buffet style restaurants here in Nassau, The Bahamas, and employs more than 36 persons across the 3 restaurants that are in operation. My role as Administrative Assistant lines me up to see both the big tasks and little ones that keep the company afloat. On a day to day I work closely with both top and middle management to ensure all the administrative tasks that knit all of our subsequent departments together. Some would even regard my position as the glue to the unseen magic that makes running the organization appear so streamlined and seamless.

Some of my duties as administrative assistant are as follows: 1. Works directly with the CEO / Owners on projects. 2. Maintains employee file, update information as need. 3. Track employees’ sick, vacation days etc. 4. Prepare Employee Bank letters, reference letters as requested. 5. Process all owners’ bills for payments etc. 6. Receive daily requisition sheets from Store managers by 12noon. 7. Combine all requisitions into one purchase order by 1pm. 8. Process expense reports for owners. 9. Prepare Employee NIB form for payment. 10. Retrieves employee time log information for payroll. 11. Distribute Memo, bulletin and other information as need to the various store. 12. Obtain employee recognition form from low level managers.

While I have only been with my company for roughly four months, I’m already growing increasingly