“…The dynamic and competitive nature of business environments has increasingly focused attention on the role of employees within workplaces and ways to strengthen employee commitment to workplace and tasks. This shift has led in particular to the surge of “participative infrastructure”, which is conceptualised as employee empowerment practices (Tretiakov et al ., 2023; Jain et al ., 2022; Askenazy and Caroli, 2010; Askenazy, 2001; Kling, 1995; Bauer, 2004; Kato and Morishima, 2002 among others). Empowerment practices are policies, mechanisms and processes within the workplace that enable lower-level individual employees to participate in decision making and share rewards and authority (Kim and Fernandez, 2017; Wood and de Menezes, 2011; Appelbaum et al ., 2000; Zatzick and Iverson, 2011; Mohr and Zoghi, 2008; Hammer and Stern, 1980; Seibert et al ., 2004).…”