“…Employee participation, also often referred to as employee involvement, participative management or leadership and a few other terms, is essentially an organizational communication practice that involves allowing, welcoming and encouraging employees' voices and inputs in the management or structuring of the organizations (Atouba, 2018). For many decades now, employee participation has become a buzzword in management circles and various participative practices/approaches have been pioneered and implemented at various workplaces with varying results (Steimel, 2017; Pasmore and Fagans, 1992; Summers and Hyman, 2005). In other words, employee work participation, despite its popularity and considerable appeal (Budd et al , 2010; Child, 2020), does not always work or is not always effective at increasing employees' organizational commitment.…”