Scentre Group Report: Open Systems Analysis - Deakin College 2019

This report provides an analysis of Scentre Group's organizational system from an open systems perspective. It examines the company's interaction with its external environment, detailing the inputs, processes, and outputs. The analysis considers resources, labor, and financial aspects as inputs, while processes include employee benefits and regulatory compliance. Outputs encompass competitor analysis, social and legal system evaluations, and environmental impact assessments. The report concludes by highlighting the importance of PESTLE analysis for understanding the external environment's impact on Scentre Group's operations within the real estate sector.

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Management: Scentre Group
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1.0 Analysis of the Scentre Group with Organization System
1.1 Open System of Scentre Group
Open system is referred to as a non proprietary system which this based on a standard set
of interfaces those are publicly known. It is responsibility of the company to design and develop
the most suitable organizational system so that the company can deliver approximately equal or
additional beneficial result as outcomes. The open system of the company is enough flexible
which can adopt as well as change with its interaction mode with the other environmental
elements (Scentregroup 2019). It again defies the entropy effect of the company.
1.2 Analysis of Scentre Group System of the Scentre Group and its External
Environments
The open system of Scentre Group is comprises of four basic elements- the project
associates are required to define fully so that all the vendors can work effectively in the same
framework, stable over the reasonable time length, completely published as well as interface
which is available publicly and the working team members are not controlled by any other
organization or vendors (Williams, McWilliams and Lawrence 2017). The pre eminent shopping
centre portfolio is operated by Scentre Group Company.
1.2.1 Input from External Environment
The inputs from external environment to Scentre Group are as follows:
Resources: The Scentre Group organizational structure of the company has an executive
committee which holds chief executive officer, chief financial officer, general cousel and

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divisional directors (Khan, Alam and Alam 2015). In order to operate the marketing operations
the company involves the senior managers and the team.
Labors: The total numbers of employees working in the organization are- 209 part time
employees, 87 temporary employees, and 805 numbers of employees newly hired, 1739 full time
employees.
Money: The net economic value generated for Scentre Group is $3,416.5 Million and the
direct economic value retained is $969.50 Million.
1.2.2 Processes
The different processes involved in the open system of the company include mandatory
employee benefits, favoured trading partners, industrial safety and protection regulations,
labeling products, accurate factors of macro environments are the other inputs of the Scentre
Group Company. Apart from that, accurate business strategies are the other inputs those are
works for the company. The company “introducing South Australia’s newest dining as well as
entertainment precinct”.
1.2.3 Output to the External Environment
The outputs that the company would be able to realize include competitor’s analysis,
social system analysis result, legal and political system, environmental system analysis result and
the outcomes of the monitoring system. Through external analysis the Scentre Group would be
able to convert the inputs to needful outputs (Aithal 2016). The monitory system used by the
company would facilitate the earning, spending, building facilities, banking facilities
successfully. The business economy would also be able to deliver better values to the company.

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2.0 Conclusion
From the overall discussion it can be concluded that the external environment of The
Scentre Group Company can be analyzed with the help of PESTLE analysis. It is a strategic tool
that helps to analyze the technical, environmental, social, legal and political external
environment. The company would be able to understand the external political environment
which may negatively impact its real estate sector.
References
Scentregroup., 2019 . scentregroup. [online] scentregroup. Available at:
https://www.scentregroup.com/home-page [Accessed 31 Mar. 2019].
Williams, C., McWilliams, A. and Lawrence, R. 2017. MGMT3. 3rd ed. South
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Michelle Aarons, pp.100-150.
Khan, U.A., Alam, M.N. and Alam, S., 2015. A critical analysis of internal and external
environment of Apple Inc. International Journal of Economics, Commerce and
Management, 3(6), pp.955-961.
Aithal, P.S., 2016. Study on ABCD analysis technique for business models, business
strategies, operating concepts & business systems. International Journal in Management and
Social Science, 4(1).