Journal of Governance and Regulation / Volume 10, Issue 3, 2021 93 EMPOWERMENT OF EMPLOYEES IN CREATIVE ECONOMIC BUSINESS: CASE STUDY OF THE DEVELOPING ECONOMY Agus Utomo * , Yosephine Angelina Yulia ** , Yenni Khristiana * * Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi AUB Surakarta, Surakarta, Indonesia ** Corresponding author, Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi AUB Surakarta, Surakarta, Indonesia Contact details: Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi AUB Surakarta, Jl. Mr. Sartono No. 46 Nusukan, Surakarta, Middle Java, Indonesia Abstract How to cite this paper: Utomo, A., Yulia, Y. A., & Khristiana, Y. (2021). Empowerment of employees in creative economic business: Case study of the developing economy. Journal of Governance & Regulation, 10(3), 93–103. https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv10i3art8 Copyright © 2021 The Authors This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/ ISSN Print: 2220-9352 ISSN Online: 2306-6784 Received: 11.02.2021 Accepted: 14.07.2021 JEL Classification: A13, E24, J54, L26, O31 DOI: 10.22495/jgrv10i3art8 Companies engaged in the creative industry right now are implementing employee empowerment as one step in the organization to participate more effectively and make things work well (Siachou & Gkorezis, 2018). Empowerment teaches how employees make decisions and accept responsibility for the results of what they do. Related to the issue of development and creative economic growth, what are the organization‘s efforts towards employees in creative industry companies through empowerment employee (McRobbie, 2016)? This study aims to determine employees‘ perceptions of employee empowerment and the impact of empowerment on creative business. This research is qualitative research with a case study approach. The subject of the research is 18 employees at the company Janur Biru, Surakarta. Data collection was done through interviews, observations, and review of documents. Long-time observation and research take about 6 months. Research data are analyzed by classifying data based on various data available, then connecting with data and information obtained from literature, documents, surveys, interviews, and field observation. Based on the results of research conducted at Janur Biru about employee empowerment, it can be concluded, that overall empowerment for employees is good. The most dominant employee empowerment is accountability. The dimensions of desire are generally good. However, the lack of creative encouragement for employees to think about work strategies is because work strategies are still being made by leaders. Keywords: Employee Empowerment, Creative Economy, Creative Economic Business, Organizational Culture, Employee Participation, Creative Industries, Entrepreneurship Authors’ individual contribution: Conceptualization — A.U.; Methodology — A.U.; Formal Analysis — A.U., Y.A.Y, and Y.K.; Writing — Original Draft — A.U., Y.A.Y, and Y.K.; Writing — Review & Editing — A.U., Y.A.Y, and Y.K.; Supervision — A.U. Declaration of conflicting interests: The Authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. 1. INTRODUCTION Human resources (HR) are the most important assets or capital for an organization or company. HR is the most important capital because it has far more value than all the equipment, technology and systems that are owned by the organization or the company itself. Companies need to manage and maintain the HR within the company to make it as good as possible. It should be understood by the company that half of employees‘ daily lives is spent in the workplace and workplaces have become