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  • This study examined the relationship between empowering leadership from the perspective of subordinates and employees’ innovative work behavior and to test the role of psychological empowerment as a mediator variable. The hypotheses were simultaneously tested using path analysis. Data were collected with an online survey answered by 146 employees at various manufacture industry sectors both private and public in Indonesia, such as manufacture of food and beverages products, wood, chemicals, pharmeceuticals, basic metal, and the others. Sample of this study consist of 60,3% male and 39,7% female, with the average age was 29 years old. This study found a direct and indirect relationship between empowering leadership and innovative work behavior via psychological empowerment. This study indicates that psychological empowerment partially mediates the relationship between empowering leadership and innovative work behavior. In addition, both empowering leadership and psychological empowerment are able to trigger employees’ innovative work behavior.