ABSTRACT
Management and leadership have not been conceived as different domains for many years. However, whereas managerial actions are often associated with technical aspects and control practices, leadership’s attitudes are connected especially with the ‘character’ of leaders as oriented towards followers’ professional development. In this article, I analyse how a French multinational company was able to connect its responsible leadership attitudes to a participatory model of management. This happened by shifting the attention from a rational and technical approach of the management to the wide spreading of the ‘relational’ factor through the leadership style adopted, allowing the creation of sharing and collaborative acts between people.
