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Topshop Organizational Structure Essay

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Introduction
Topshop was founded in 1964 in Sheffield within the ladies fashion store chain Peter Robinson Ltd. The first official stand alone store was opened in 1974, followed by Topman being introduced in 1978 exclusively for male customers. Topshop has over 300 stores in the UK and over 100 stores internationally and has a flagship store in both London andn New York. It is part of the Arcadia Group which also owns Dorothy Perkins, Burton and Miss Selfridge.
The Topshop store which will be focused on for this report will be Glasgow Buchanan Street Store and I will evaluate the organisation and management of the store.

Open Systems Approach
System approaches are based on the idea that an …show more content…

Measurable – should measure whether you are meeting the objectives or not.
Achievable - are the objectives you set achievable?
Realistic – can you realistically achieve the objectives with the resources you have?
Time bound – when do you want to achieve the set objectives?

These objectives are specific as they explain exactly what the company expects from their employees, how they should treat their employees and customers and how the retailer should take into account environmental factors when dealing with products/services etc. They are not so much measurable as they do not imply whether they have achieved these objectives or not. They are achievable because they are straight forward. They are realistic and using the correct resources they can be met. They are not so much time bound as they do not state exactly when they wish to achieve these objectives by but you can tell they will be ongoing objectives that they constantly wish to achieve in the future.

Formal Structure of the Organisation
Topshop has very few layers of management in the High Street Store in Buchanan Street; this is known as a flat structure:

A flat structure – also known as a horizontal organisation – is when the specific retail store has very few or no levels of management. With this structure it means the staff will be highly trained in their day-to-day job and will be more productive because they are

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