What is a word for "participation" that resembles "kameseru"?


According to the article ["On Being Late to Work in Japan |
遅出"](http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/03/09/japan-work-ethic/) (linked from
[this post](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/28274/10298) at The
Workplace):

> The word for participation – _kameseru_ – has a special significance which
> also explains why Japanese bureaucracy is so overwhelming...

As far as I know, カメセル is not a Japanese word, and it doesn't look like any
variations on the vowels (カーメセル or カメーセル or カメセール or カメセルー or some combination
thereof) or gemination (カメッセル) give you anything useful either. Nor can I
think of any near-homophones (コメセル? カメスル?) that mean anything related to
"participation".

What word might the article have meant?




I'm the author of that post, the 'insufferable self-absorbed hipster.'

It was a typo - I'd meant 'kamei-suru' but was pretty bad at Japanese when I
first arrived (and still am not very good, but continue to learn and practice
even after having left the country). It's this:

加盟 + する

And basically refers to 'becoming a part of the group' by engaging and
participating in the group's activities. I think in hindsight it may have a
much more limited function.




I think it might refer to [加盟]{かめい}する, although in the context of leaving
early or not from work, 参加する would have been a much better fit.

Still, my guess is the author just asked someone "How do you say
_participation_ in Japanese?" and someone came up with 加盟する.

