Driving Collective Change: Understanding the Role of Internal Communication, Organizational Trust, and Efficacy in Employees’ Issue-Driven Collective Activism Intention Toward Police Brutality Issues

This study explored how organizations’ dialogic internal communication about their stance to end police brutality toward African Americans influenced employees’ issue-driven collective activism intention to address police brutality toward African Americans. An online survey was conducted to recruit 401 eligible participants. Results found that dialogic internal communication about stance on police brutality toward African American issues positively predicted employees’ organizational trust which was positively associated with their self-efficacy and collective efficacy. Moreover, both employees’ self-efficacy and collective efficacy mediated the relationship between their organizational trust and issue-driven collective activism intention to anti-police brutality toward African Americans. Several theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.