•  Steven McShane is the author of Canadian Organizational Behaviour , 6th Ed. (2006), one of Canada 's best-selling OB textbooks. Steve McShane also co-authors (with Tony Travaglione) Organizational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim , 2e (2007) which has become the best selling OB text in Australia and New Zealand . Mary Ann Von Glinow is a past president of the Academy of Management and teaches at Florida International University . Steve McShane is a past president of the Canadian equivalent (Administrative Sciences Association of Canada) and currently teaches in Perth , Singapore , and Manila for the University of Western Australia . Both authors have extensive experience teaching and consulting outside the U.S and bring a global perspective to the OB course.
•  All ancillaries are authored by Steve McShane , ensuring the highest quality and reliability of each and every piece of this superlative teaching package.
•  End-of-Chapter Short Cases and Comprehensive Cases – This textbook has become a popular source for both short and comprehensive cases. Short cases appear at the end of each chapter to help students diagnose organizational issues using OB concepts from the chapter. More comprehensive cases also appear in the “Additional Cases” section of the book.
•  Self-Assessment Exercises – This book offers 85 self-assessments, including 36 in-text self-assessments and 50 additional self-assessments online! These instruments allow students to diagnose their attitudes, personality, values, and beliefs on a variety of organizational behavior concepts.
•  Team /Experiential exercises found in each chapter – These entertaining and informative activities help students to experience OB concepts, rather than just read about them. McShane and Von Glinow offer one or more exercises in each chapter.
•  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 in meaningful for students.
•  Business Week Cases – These cases (found at the end of each chapter) encourage students to use organizational behavior knowledge as a tool to diagnose and solve organizational problems. They also relate chapter concepts to the dynamic world of business. Students see OB concepts at work in a variety of organizational settings, from spectacular successes to spectacular failures. Each Business Week case includes a set of discussion questions. Example: In “After Enron: The Ideal Corporation” (Chapter 2), students examine ways to improve ethical values and practices among business leaders.