Survey dataset on leadership styles and job satisfaction: The Perspective of employees of hospitality providers

This study aimed at establishing the relationship between the dimensions of leadership styles and employees’ job satisfaction in hospitality industry in Nigeria. This study was prompted by reports of high labour turnover in this sector of the economy (especially in the guesthouses), because of reduction in the satisfaction of the workforce. Cross-sectional research design which is quantitative in nature, was the methodology adopted for this study to assess the trends of relationships between the constructs. Questionnaire was used as the measuring instrument, and reliability and validity test for the instrument were established using cronbach alpha, for all the variables ranging between 71% and 89%. The study population comprises 410 employees in the six selected functioning guesthouses, which also represents the study sample. Total enumeration sampling technique was adopted. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software package (version 22) was used for the analysis of the data. The field dataset is available to the public for more rigorous, extensive, critical and extended analysis.


Idealised influence Intellectual stimulation Inspirational motivation Individualised consideration Employees' job satisfaction a b s t r a c t
This study aimed at establishing the relationship between the dimensions of leadership styles and employees' job satisfaction in hospitality industry in Nigeria. This study was prompted by reports of high labour turnover in this sector of the economy (especially in the guesthouses), because of reduction in the satisfaction of the workforce. Cross-sectional research design which is quantitative in nature, was the methodology adopted for this study to assess the trends of relationships between the constructs. Questionnaire was used as the measuring instrument, and reliability and validity test for the instrument were established using cronbach alpha, for all the variables ranging between 71% and 89%. The study population comprises 410 employees in the six selected functioning guesthouses, which also represents the study sample. Total enumeration sampling technique was adopted. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software package (version 22) was used for the analysis of the data. The field dataset is available to the public for more rigorous, extensive, critical and extended analysis.  The data are available with this article

Value of data
These data could assist management to discover the appropriate leadership style, which will enable the organisation to boost employees' job satisfaction and further improve organisation's activities.
The data could provide the organisation with ample information on which of the dimensions of transformational and transactional leadership styles will be the best in boosting employees' job satisfaction.
Generally, this data obtained from this study would be important for organizational goal and objectives achievement, gaining competitive advantage that would lead to better organizational performance.
These data are available for more rigorous, comparative and extended analysis by other researchers.

Data
According to Table 1, four hundred and ten (410) copies of questionnaire were administered to the employees of the selected Universities guesthouses in southwest, Nigeria. Three hundred and twentyfour (324) were returned and usable, which represented 79%, while the remaining eighty-six (86) were not returned, thus representing 21% of the total questionnaire administered.
Based on the usable copies of questionnaire, Tables 2-5 and Figs. 1-4 revealed the demographic profile of the respondents according to gender, age, marital status and educational qualification. The demographic data of the respondents revealed that 193 (59.6%) were male, while the female respondents were 131 (40.4%). Though, male respondents were more than the female respondents, but the opinion of both genders were adequately represented. Based on Table 3, ages 18-29 years were 184 (56.8%), ages between 30 and 39 were 98 (30.2%), and 42 (13.0%) were the respondents between ages 40 and 49 years. From Table 4, the singles among the respondents were 215 (66.4%), while the married were 109 (33.6%) of the total respondents. According to Table 5, 121 (37.3%) of the respondents were Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) holders, 127 (39.2%) of the respondents were Ordinary National Diploma (OND) and National Certificate in Education (NCE) certificate holders. Higher National Diploma (HND) and first degree holders from the University among the respondents were 68 (21.0%), Masters and Professional certificate holders among the respondents were 6 (1.9%), while 2 (0.6%) were Doctor of philosophy (Ph.D) holders among the respondents.

The correlational relationship between the variables
The correlational relationships between idealised influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, individualised consideration, management by exception (active), management by      where: x 1 ¼ Idealised Influence of Transformational leadership style x 2 ¼ Inspirational Motivation of Transformational leadership style  Table 13 Correlations showing relationship between idealised influence and job satisfaction.

Table 14
Correlations showing relationship between inspirational motivation and job satisfaction.

Table 16
Correlation showing relationship between individualised consideration and job satisfaction.

Table 17
Correlation showing relationship between management by exception active and job satisfaction.

Experimental design, material and method
The focus of this study was on six (6) well-functioning Universities' guesthouses in southwest, Nigeria. The population of the employees working in the selected guesthouses is four hundred and ten (410); they were all taken as the sample because of the small size, and also for adequate representation. However, total enumeration method was the sampling technique [1]. Pen and paper questionnaire were used for gathering quantitative data. Data on demographic characteristics of the respondents were obtained, so also, data on idealised influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, individualised consideration, contingent reward, management by exception (active), management by exception (passive) and employees' job satisfaction were gathered. The measuring instruments were obtained from extant literature [2,3]. The data revealed a meaningful effect of the dimensions of transformational and transactional leadership styles on employees' job satisfaction among employees of the selected guesthouses in southwest, Nigeria. The data gathered were coded and analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22. Descriptive statistics, Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) and stepwise regression were applied in the analysis.