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The purpose of this study is to verify the effect relationship that the empowering leadership by the superiors in the hotel enterprise affects the intrinsic motivation and innovative activities as an object of hotel employees. And this study was to grasp that the factors of intrinsic motivation had positive effect on the innovative activities. In addition, this study was to verify the mediating effects of intrinsic motivation from the effect relationship between the empowering leadership by the superiors and their innovative activities. To achieve this objective, this study was to execute the empirical analysis through the questionnaire by selecting the employees who worked in 8 deluxe hotels in Seoul city and 2 deluxe hotels in Gwangju city as population. When all the studies were combined, 4 hypotheses were completely accepted, and this study has found out that 5 components like decision-making, expression of interest, coaching, leading by example, and provision of information in the empowering leadership had positive effect on the intrinsic motivation and innovative activities. On the effect of empowering leadership on the innovative activities, this study has shown that the intrinsic motivation played a mediating role. The implications in this study were that it provided the information related to the business for the junior staffs through the empowering leadership by the superiors, made them participated in the decision-making, suggested the creative opinions and ideas more positively, and showed the innovative attitudes or behaviors because the 의 intrinsic motivation by the junior staffs became higher when they showed their continued interest and guidance and leading by example.