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Sustainable Leadership and Business Resilience: Moderating Role of Organisational Culture in the Hospitality Industry

Desmond Oben Neji, Collins Okechukwu Irem, Esther Ugo Alum, Vitalii S. Nitsenko, Green eld Mwakipesile, Gladys Onah Owere, Chukwuoyims Kevin Egwu, Agnes Ugboego Chukwu, Kingsley Sunday Uzoadigonma Oyekezie, Chichi Maureen Anyalor

The resilience of hospitality businesses has received scholarly attention due to the role the businessesplay in the economic development of every country. Previous studies on the resilience of hospitalitybusinesses have not examined how sustainable leadership could enhance the resilience consciousnessof hospitality businesses, including the role that organisational culture could play. It was these gaps thatnecessitated this investigation. Thus, this study examined the moderating role of organisational cultureon the relationship between sustainable leadership and business resilience in the hospitality industry.The study approach was quantitative, which warranted the use of nomothetic means to collect andanalyse data. The population of the study was ve hundred and twenty (520) hotel managers, HRo cers, front desk o cers, housekeepers, and accountants drawn from ten (10) four-star hotels insoutheastern Nigeria. A sample size of two hundred and twenty-two (222) was determined with theKrejcie and Morgan (1970) formula from the study population. ADANCO 2.3.1 was used to analyse theformulated research hypotheses. The results revealed that sustainable leadership has a positive andsigni cant relationship with business resilience. Additionally, it was discovered that organizationalculture enhances the relationship between the constructs. The novelty of this investigation lies in themoderating role of organisational culture in the relationship between sustainable leadership andbusiness resilience in the hospitality industry.