Engaging Writing Style: Steve McShane has an engaging writing style that goes beyond readability to everyone in college and university courses; his vivid depiction of real-life examples draws students into the content and motivates them to read on. Furthermore, Canadian Organizational Behaviour, Sixth Edition (COB6) recognizes that OB concepts are relevant to anyone in organizations, not just managers.

Linking Theory with Reality: COB shows students the connection between contemporary OB theory and actual events in organizations and helps them understand behaviour in organizations. Every chapter of COB is filled with real-life examples to make OB concepts more meaningful and reflect the relevance and excitement of this field. For example, readers learn about team dynamics at Lighthouse Publishing in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia; the foundations of corporate culture at Cirque du Soleil in Montreal; rewards, empowerment, and other applied performance practices at WestJet in Calgary; and the methods used to generate creativity at Vancouver-based game developer Radical Entertainment

A Canadian Orientation with a Global Context: Written by a Canadian, for Canadians, COB6 has a solid foundation of contemporary knowledge and practice across Canada. This book anchors these concepts with examples from Atlantic Canada to British Columbia. At the same time, COB6 provides a global perspective that is unrivalled in organizational behaviour textbooks. Steve McShane writes other highly popular OB textbooks adopted in universities around the world, and this Canadian edition draws upon that global awareness. This is apparently the only business textbook in which the lead author is the lead writer for variations of the book in other regions. Continuously updating each book helps to ensure that COB6 offers Canadians the latest organizational behaviour concepts, issues, and examples at the time of publication.

Critical Think and Active Learning: Colleges and universities are striving to include more active learning, critical thinking, and outcomes-based teaching. COB6 supports this trend by offering an assortment of cases, exercises, self-assessments, and video cases to aid the learning process. This book offers more cases – including several written specifically for this edition -- from a diverse and experienced group of writers than any other OB book in Canada.

Enhanced Team Coverage: Teamwork is an essential concept in the study of Organizational Behaviour. Chapter 9: Foundations of Team Dynamics more explicitly explains why organizations rely on teams. It also offers new information about Belbin’s team roles model as well as team composition and diversity. Chapter 10: Developing High-Performance Teams further refines our knowledge of self-directed work teams and sociotechnical systems theory. It also updates the section on team trust. This chapter also incorporates writing on team decision making, including new knowledge about groupthink and brainstorming.

Technology to support teaching and student success: COB delivers in a new way with the most comprehensive ancillary and technology package in the market. The 5th edition introduced a set of interactive skills development applications and robust online content. The 6th edition continues with this wealth of material all housed on the Online Learning Centre, in addition to a new and interactive online e-Study Guide developed specifically to the 6th edition content to ensure student success.