Innovation is an important means to improve productivity and technological progress and gain competitive advantage, and staff innovation is the main source of enterprise innovation. Based on the theory of intrinsic motivation, this paper tries to test the mediator role of psychological empowerment between authorized leadership and individual innovation in organizations. This article selects knowledge workers employees as the survey object and takes the knowledge workers employees in Chongqing as the main survey object. Through exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis, 346 valid questionnaires were collected by literature review and questionnaire survey. It was concluded that both authorized leadership style and psychological empowerment significantly positively affect employee innovation performance, and authorized leadership style positively affects employee psychological empowerment. At the same time, psychological empowerment plays a mediator role between authorized leadership and innovation performance. Managers need to fully recognize the characteristics, needs, and values of knowledge workers, carry out authorized leadership according to their needs, truly stimulate the important role of psychological empowerment of knowledge workers in individual and organizational innovation of employees, and create a supportive atmosphere for their work and innovation activities.