Background: COVID-19 had a significant impact on frontline healthcare professionals, particularly nurse managers. Resilient nurse managers are able to survive and thrive. This is the empowering leader behavior, which will also improve the productivity and efficacy of nurses' work. Aim of the study: To explore the relationship between nurse manager’s resilience and empowering leader behavior during covid 19. Design: A descriptive correlational design was utilized. Setting: The study was carried out in Benisuef university hospital. Subject: consisted of 284 staff nurses and 44 nurse managers. Tools: Data were obtained through two main tools; the resilience scale and staff Nurses' Perception regarding Head Nurses' Empowering Behavior during covid 19 Questionnaire. Results: Regarding nurse managers’ resilience level, (50%) of them had high level, (15.9%) of them had low level. 66.9% of staff nurses perceived had high level of empowering leader behavior during COVID-19. and only (3.9%) had low level. There was highly statistically significant positive correlation between all dimensions of head nurses' resilience skill levels and all dimensions of staff nurses' perception of their empowering leader behavior during COVID -19. Conclusion: There was highly statistically significant positive correlation between all dimensions of head nurses' resilience skill levels and all dimensions of staff nurses' perception of their empowering leader behavior during COVID -19. Recommendations: Healthcare organization should Provide nursing personnel with resilience and empowering leader behavior training courses to enhance their professional development. Further studies: should be conducted to investigate nurses' perceptions of crises, such as the COVID-19 epidemic, and using the findings to create practical strategies to encourage nurses' resilience.