Internal Communication and Employee Engagement

Chapter SevenTo Stay Silent or Speak Up against Corporate Racial Discrimination? An Internal Public Segmentation Approach to Employee Voice and Silence Behaviors

Hyunji (Dana) Lim and Young Kim

DOI: 10.4324/9781003195580-11

Introduction

Racial discrimination has increasingly challenged the workplace in the United States. Big corporations, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Uber, have all recently faced multiple lawsuits filed by former and current employees (Dave, 2021). According to the Pew Research Center, more than two-thirds (70%) of Americans have witnessed or experienced racial discrimination in the U.S. (Daniller, 2021). Scholars have paid attention to persistent racial discrimination in the workplace in terms of social networks, ...