Abstract:Based on the followership perspective and self-validation theory, a moderated mediation model was constructed to study the influence of employee followership on innovation behavior, and the mediating effect of organization-based self-esteem and the moderating effect of psychological empowerment were discussed. Based on the analysis of 486 sample, the results showed that organizational self-esteem played a significant mediating role between employee followership and innovation behavior, and psychological empowerment positively moderated the mechanism between organization-based self-esteem and innovation behavior and the mediating role of organization-based self-esteem. The research findings have a certain theoretical contribution to exploring how employee followership affects innovation behavior, which also playing a guiding role in enterprise management practice.