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Empowering leadership is the behavioral states that are considered within the scope of the efficiency of the organization and regarding the positive aspects of the manager. The main purpose of this study is to determine whether “information sharing” functions as a mediator in the effect of empowering leadership, which is a positive leadership behavior, on innovative work behavior. In the study, "Does knowledge sharing play a role as a mediating variable in the effect of empowering leadership on innovative business behavior?" the question has been tried to be answered. The research has been designed according to the quantitative research method. Research data have been collected from an informatics firm (n = 412) in Ankara according to the simple random sampling technique. In the analysis of the data, descriptive analyzes were made with difference and relationship tests using SPSS and AMOS programs. According to the findings obtained in the analysis of the research data, positive effects have been found between empowering leadership behavior, information sharing and innovative work behaviors, and it has been determined that information sharing had a partial mediating effect on the effect of empowering leadership on innovative work behavior. As a result, empowering leadership behavior affects positive behaviors towards employees in the organization. Positive management behavior also increases the perception of information sharing and innovative work behavior among employees.

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