book

We are currently in the process of completing a book in which we synthesize the
nearly forty years of scholarship on the Intimidation Rituals. This concept
continues to be utilized by scholars and practitioners on an international scale.
By any standard, it has passed the test of academic value. But it has not yet
reached the general public, where it rightly belongs. This is where we believe
that the Intimidation Rituals will reach its potential as a concept that gives voice
to experiences people in organizations have on a daily basis but who do not have
the words to describe what is happening to them.

We, as social scientists, one an organizational psychologist and the other a
cultural anthropologist, believe that the true power of the social sciences resides
in our capacity to communicate our academic knowledge that applies everyday
matters in a format that in no way dilutes the significance of that knowledge.
Popular social science need not be "pop" (i.e. shallow, superficial and
oversimplified). Therefore we developed this website and are completing a book
written for a general audience because of our belief that the concept of the
Intimidation Rituals should be distributed to the general population who do not
typically read academic books and journals.

Rory O'Day, Ph.D.
Robin O'Day, Ph.D. Candidate

"…O'Day describes a spectrum of
behaviour that those with formal
authority use to control others…as
means of dealing with deviant or
charismatic individuals who threaten
the established order."

(Peter J. Frost, PhD., University of British
Columbia, Walter R. Nord, Ph.D., University
of South Florida and Vance F. Mitchell, PhD.,
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University)