Terri Ryan

The Bullies' Predatory Footprint Terri Ryan

The Bullies' Predatory Footprint (Nonfiction)
 

• Like sharks safe in the dark fathoms of the sea to prey on targets, The Bullies' Predatory Footprint looks at the vast, opportunistic, cruel, and predatory behaviour of bullying that is exercised to repress and maintain an ascendancy of dominance, power, and control over others. Reducing human value, costing billions a year in terms of lost productivity, damaged relationship, traumatized victims, and the fraying of the tenuous fabric of respect and dignity that holds society together. The book examines how bullying permeates schools, workplaces, institutions, cyberspace, the elderly, and society in general. Referencing hundreds of experts from the specialist subject area of bullying, the book identifies dysfunctional rules of engagement, self defence strategies to protect against the behaviour and the need for cultural changes and power shifts. International studies and surveys from across the globe exposes the dearth of regulation, and the comparative inadequacy of policies from - governments to trade unions - who shirk their responsibility to protect individuals from the detrimental effects of the behaviour. 
• Harrying many young and vulnerable people to suicide, the clarion cry from communities, families, and friends touched and disabled by its impact is reduced to little more than a humanitarian reflex when social, economic, and cultural changes are not followed up by legitimised actions.
• Contradictions at the core of moral and democratic values are made evident as the cumulative imprint of hostile and cruel behaviour casts a long shadow on civil society. Unanswerable questions to posterity and a lack of human response may seem perplexing to the next generation of people born into an inherited form of entrapment.

Finding Solutions and Fostering an Anti-Bullying Culture

• Providing parents and students with an understanding of the dynamic of school bullying and cyberbullying and supporting the need for Self Defence strategies to protect children against the behaviour.
• Providing Unions and Human Resource managers with a broad research base into the prevention and management of psychosocial risk behaviour, enabling practical solutions to foster enterprise and productivity and ensure employees are protected from workplace bullying.
• Providing a readable reference guide to Libraries and Third-Level Institutes, to help further studies into the specialist area of bullying.
• Encouraging a climate and culture of enterprise, learning, accountability, respect and healthy social interaction, while discouraging the multifarious, pernicious, insidious, and all-pervasive destructive behaviour of bullying in society.
• Helping to focus advocacy groups and policy makers by presenting surveys and studies from throughout the world on the policies and legislation currently in place to protect against unwanted and cruel conduct, and detailing the financial,emotional, and psychological costs to society.