Organizational behaviour reads like common sense right up to the point where the evidence disagrees with you. Fundamentals of Organizational Behaviour, 5th Canadian Edition by Langton is built on research findings, and several of them contradict what most students would confidently guess: that a satisfied employee is automatically a productive one, or that a difficult specific goal discourages people. Exams are written from the research rather than from intuition, which is why revising this subject by nodding along with the chapter so rarely works.
Why this test bank helps
The gap between an intuitive answer and a researched one is exactly what multiple-choice items in this subject are designed to find. Each question here is followed by an explanation that names the theory being tested and separates it from the theory students usually reach for instead, so equity is distinguished from expectancy, cohesion from conformity, and a transformational leader from a merely charismatic one. Working through those explanations is the fastest way to replace instinct with something the marker will credit.
What’s inside
- Questions arranged chapter by chapter across the Canadian edition’s sequence, including its own examples and legislation.
- Multiple choice, true/false and scenario items describing behaviour in a workplace rather than in the abstract.
- A written rationale on every item, naming the theory and explaining why the intuitive alternative does not fit.
- Concentrated practice on motivation, teams and leadership, the three areas that carry most of the assessment.
- One organized PDF, delivered the moment your checkout completes.
Topics covered
- Individual differences — personality frameworks, values, perception and the attribution errors people make about each other.
- Emotions and attitudes — emotional labour, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and their measured links to behaviour.
- Motivation theories — needs-based models, expectancy, equity and goal setting, with the evidence for each.
- Motivation in practice — reward systems, job design, recognition and employee engagement programmes.
- Teams — team composition and development, cohesion, social loafing and the process losses groups incur.
- Communication and decision making — channels and barriers, rational and bounded models, and common decision biases.
- Power, politics and conflict — bases of power, influence tactics, organizational politics, conflict styles and negotiation.
- Leadership, culture and change — leadership models, organizational culture and socialization, and managing resistance to change.
Who it’s for
Canadian undergraduates taking organizational behaviour on a business or commerce degree, human resources students meeting the subject as a core requirement, and anyone studying from the fifth Canadian edition specifically.
How to use it (the right way)
Before each chapter, write down what you expect the research to say, then read and mark where you were wrong, because those are the exact points the exam will probe. Work a block of questions closed-book, flag every answer chosen because it sounded sensible, and read those rationales first. This is a study aid, used in line with your institution’s academic-integrity policy for revision and self-assessment, and never taken into a graded assessment.
Sample question (shows the format — your download contains the full set)
Q. An employee discovers that a colleague doing very similar work is paid noticeably more, and responds by putting in less effort. Which theory best explains the response?
- A. Expectancy theory
- B. Equity theory
- C. Goal-setting theory
- D. Reinforcement theory
Answer: B. The employee has compared her own ratio of contribution to reward against a referent’s and, finding it unfavourable, has restored balance by reducing what she contributes. That comparison with a referent other is the distinguishing feature of equity theory. A concerns beliefs about whether effort produces performance and performance produces a valued reward, and nothing in the scenario says those beliefs changed. C deals with the difficulty and specificity of goals, which are not mentioned. D would require a change in consequences that followed her own behaviour, whereas the pay difference concerns someone else.
Edition & format
- Matches: Fundamentals of Organizational Behaviour, 5th Canadian Edition by Langton (ISBN 9780133071160).
- Format: Digital PDF, available to download the moment checkout completes.
- Access: Lifetime — the file stays in your account to download again whenever you want.
Canadian editions of this title use different legislation, research citations and examples from other printings, and chapters are renumbered between editions. Please confirm the fifth Canadian edition is the one your course assigned before buying.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the current edition? This set is prepared for the 5th Canadian Edition. Do not substitute another printing, because the chapter structure and the examples used are not the same.
How do I receive it? It is delivered digitally the moment checkout finishes. There is no shipping and no email queue to wait through.
Do all the questions include rationales? Yes. Each question carries an explanation of the reasoning, so a wrong attempt tells you exactly which idea to go back to.
Is using a test bank allowed? It is a study aid, and revising with practice questions is ordinary academic work. Keep it inside your institution’s academic-integrity policy and out of any graded assessment.
More practice across organizational behaviour and management is in Management & Organizational Behavior Test Banks.
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