Organizational Behaviour

The Seventh Edition ofCanadian Organizational Behaviouris truly a "new and improved" McShane: new trim size, fresh new design, new co-author, reorganized table of contents, improved examples, and even enhanced readability.The McShane brand is known for its cutting edge research and scholarship, recognized for its "for Canadians, by Canadians" approach to content, and respected for its firm anchoring of Canadian material within a global context. No other OB book offers the kind of comprehensive coverage in such an accessible, readable format. Canadian Organizational Behaviour continues to lead the way as the most innovative OB text on the market. McShane was the first OB textbook to include topics such as workplace emotions, appreciative inquiry, social identity theory, future search events, virtual teams, workaholism, and emotional intelligence. The innovation continues in the seventh edition with new and expanded coverage of topics such as employee engagement, resilience, four-drive theory, blogs and wikis, psychological harassment, learning orientation, Schwartz's values model, and separating socioemotional from constructive conflict.The pedagogical features have been completely overhauled to speak to new and emerging topics in OB worldwide, including the opening vignettes, the photo essays in each chapter, and many of the end-of-chapter exercises and end-of-part cases.

A less-expensive grayscale paperback version is available. Search for ISBN 9781680922875. The field of management and organizational behavior exists today in a constant state of evolution and change. Casual readers of publications like the New York Times, The Economist and the Wall Street Journal will learn about the dynamic nature of organizations in today's ever-changing business environment. Organizational Behavior is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on Organizational Behavior. This is a traditional approach to organizational behavior. The table of contents of this book was designed to address two main themes. What are the variables that affect how, when, where, and why managers perform their jobs? What theories and techniques are used by successful managers at a variety of organizational levels to achieve and exceed objectives effectively and efficiently throughout their careers? Management is a broad business discipline, and the Organizational Behavior course covers many areas such as individual and group behavior at work, as well as organizational processes such as communication in the workplace and managing conflict and negotiation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters. Finally, we all made an effort to present a balanced approach to gender and diversity throughout the text in the examples used, the photographs selected, and the use of both male and female in alternating chapters when referring to generic managers or employees.

Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach introduces the most recent theoretical and empirical insights on positive organizational practices, addressing emerging topics such as resilience, job crafting, responsible leadership and mindfulness. Other books on positive approaches tend to gloss over the limitations of the positive agenda, but this textbook is unique in taking a reflective approach, focussing on the positive while also accommodating critical perspectives relating to power and control. Positive Organizational Behaviour provides an integrated conceptual framework, evidence-based findings and practical tools to gain an understanding of the potential of positive organizational practices. This innovative new textbook will provide advanced management and psychology students with a grounding in the area, and help them develop strategies for building effective and responsible organizations.

Organizational Behaviour is the only text to use a running case study to demonstrate the application of organizational behaviour in the real world, helping students with limited or no real-life experience of the business world to engage critically and effectively with the subject.

"Welcome to the eleventh edition of Organizational Behaviour: Understanding and Managing Life at Work! This edition marks the 33rd anniversary of the text, which has been rigorously updated over the years to present students with the latest knowledge and research on both the science and practice of organizational behaviour. First published in 1983, Organizational Behaviour is the longest-running, continuously published, and regularly revised organizational behaviour textbook authored in Canada."-

Written jointly from psychological and sociological perspectives, this work covers the range of disciplines across occupational psychology, group dynamics, and work and organizations.

Clear, concise, and written by experts currently lecturing in the field, Organizational Behaviour focuses exclusively on what you need to know for success in your business course and today's global economy. The text brings together a vast range of ideas, models, and concepts on organizational behaviour from an array of fields, such as psychology, sociology, history, economics, and politics. This information is presented in bite-sized, digestible pieces to create an accessible and engaging style that makes it the perfect text for introductory courses covering organizations. Key features include: a clear and thought-provoking introduction to organizational behaviour relevant, cutting-edge case studies with global focus hot topics such as eOrganizations, ethics, and diversity, keeping you up-to-date with current business thinking further reading, summaries, activities, key theme boxes, and review questions to help reinforce your understanding This textbook will be a valuable resource for students of business and management studies, organization studies, psychology, and sociology.

Building on the success of the previous edition and the running theme that OB is forEveryone, this new edition presents all the essential topics in Organizational Behavior in a concise and readable format. Fundamentals of Organizational Behaviour, Fourth Canadian Edition, helps students make the connections between the subject, the world of research that supports OB, and students' everyday lives, both now and in their future careers.