ALL NEW McSHANE! New design, new Canadian co-author, new streamlined text: The McShane brand has undergone a complete refresh to emerge as a leaner (15 chapters), more relevant, more current, and more appealing version of Canada’s most popular OB text. These changes have not been undertaken at the expense of the elements that have made COB such a success. This edition builds on the successes of Steve McShane’s pioneering, innovative text and delivers updated content in a leaner, even more readable style, wrapped up in a bold, eye-catching new design.

A Canadian Orientation with a Global Context: Written by Canadians, for Canadians, COB 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, COB provides a global perspective that is unrivalled in organizational behaviour textbooks. Steve McShane writes other highly popular OB textbooks adopted in colleges and universities around the world, and the seventh Canadian edition draws upon that global awareness. McShane is the only business textbook in which the lead author is the lead writer for variations of the book in other regions of the world. Continuously updating each book helps to ensure that COB offers Canadians the latest organizational behaviour concepts, issues, and examples at the time of publication. Sandra Steen brings a further Canadian context to the book, with Western Canadian flavour, and the HR centered perspective that reviewers are asking for.

Superior Technology! Over 85 superior self-assessments: New self-assessments on guanxi orientation, propensity to trust, stress coping preferences, Connor-Davidson resilience scale, and need for personal structure – bringing the total to 36 in-text self-assessments, plus 50 additional self-assessments online. Add in our new iStudy, videos, Manager’s Hot Seat Online, Group Video Resource Manual, OB Online, and you’ve got the best technology package around!

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

Engaging Writing Style: Steve McShane and new Canadian co-author Sandra Steen, have an engaging writing style that goes beyond readability to connect with students in both college and university courses. Their vivid depiction of real life examples draws students into the content and motivates them to read on. COB recognizes that OB concepts are relevant to anyone in organizations, not just managers. The new seventh edition features “hipper,” edgier examples and companies that will resonate with students.

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 Whole Foods Market in Toronto and Vancouver; 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 Victoria, B.C. based biological research software company GenoLogics.

Captioned photos: Every chapter has eye catching photos with detailed captions, mostly about specific companies. These captioned photos, as well as the opening vignette to each chapter and lengthier examples called “Connections” that appear in most chapters, make the concepts more interesting and meaningful for students.