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What does Open Education mean?

Open Education textbooks are a type of Open Education Resource (OER) that have been licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. Open Education textbooks are free for you to use. Within this book, you will see two different licences used:
•    A Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike licence (CC BY NC SA) which allows you to make changes, save, and print this book as long as the use is non-commercial AND you give credit to the original author.
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Unlike other ebooks, this book does not require a username and password, and you can keep the content forever!

Can I print the content of this book/course?

Yes, the open license means that you can print any or all parts of this book for personal use.

Licensing Statement

This edition of Organizational Behaviour is made available in 2025 by Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Sharealike (CC BY NC SA 4.0) licence, unless noted differently at the point of use.  The SAIT name and SAIT logo are not included within this licence and may not be reproduced without the prior and express written permission of Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.

 The content for this edition was adapted from the following works:
•    Organizational Behavior and Human Relations, developed by Lumen Learning with Barbara Egel and Robert Danielson under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
•    Organizational Behavior, published by University of Minnesota Libraries under a CC BY NC SA 4.0 licence.  The work was adapted from a 2010 text released by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution.
•    Organizational Behavior, released by OpenStax under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
•    Organizational Behavior (BUS209), released by Saylor Academy under a CC BY 3.0 Unported licence.
•    Organizational Behaviour (NSCC Edition), created by Nova Scotia Community College Faculty and released under a CC BY NC SA 4.0 licence.
•    The decorative chapter and section headers used within the work were created by Charissa Lee using images available on the Canva platform. This content is freely available for noncommercial and educational use. Please go to the Canva licensing page for more information.
•    The cover image is adapted from the “People Standing Nearing a White Wall” image by Fauxels, used under the Pexel Free Use licence.