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Abstract

Organizational resilience is a new way of survival, which ensures performance and competitive advantage in an ever-changing global world environment. Although there is much literature pertaining to leadership, not much empirical focus has been attached to the contribution of the various styles of leadership in the creation of resilient organizational cultures. This paper examines how eight types of leadership, transformational, servant, adaptive, transactional, democratic, autocratic, laissez-faire and situational, impact organizational resilience. It is important to define leadership behaviours that can influence resilience in a significant, direct, or mediated way through other factors like organizational culture and the adaptability of employees. A descriptive-correlational research design was utilized. 250 middle and senior-level managers in the public and private sector organizations of Pakistan provided data using a structured questionnaire. Direct and indirect path coefficients were analyzed through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) on the SmartPLS 4.0 software. As the study found out, transformational (β = 0.482), servant (β = 0.319), and adaptive leadership (β = 0.356) had the greatest significant positive influence on resilience (p < 0.001), whereas autocratic and laissez-faire had adverse effects. Statistically significant was also the indirect mediation through culture and adaptability. Organizationally, it is encouraged that an adaptive and transformational leadership development program and an inclusive and learning-based organization should be encouraged to derive long-term resilience. Cross-cultural leadership and its longitudinal effects are suggested for future research.