Abstract
This study aims to investigate the levels of organizational happiness of teachers working in primary, secondary, and high schools and to determine whether there is a significant difference in terms of some demographic characteristics. The screening model was employed in the study. The study population consists of teachers working in the Küçükçekmece, Bağcılar, Avcılar, and Esenyurt districts during the 2017-2018 academic year. The sample of the study comprises 297 teachers working in the Küçükçekmece, Bağcılar, Avcılar, and Esenyurt districts and selected via the convenience/incidental sampling method. In the study, the “Personal Information Form” created by the researchers and the “School Happiness Scale” developed by Bulut (2015) were used as data collection tools. The SPSS packaged software was used in the data analysis. According to the results of the data analysis, teachers’ general happiness perceptions and organizational happiness perceptions were observed to be high according to the subdimensions of management processes, attitudes towards the teaching profession, communication, commitment and economic provision of the School Happiness Scale. Teachers’ perceptions of organizational happiness differed significantly according to the level of education taught by teachers in the subdimensions of management processes and economic provision of the School Happiness Scale. Teachers’ perceptions of organizational happiness differed significantly according to professional seniority in the management processes subdimension of the School Happiness Scale. Teachers’ perceptions of organizational happiness differed significantly in the subdimensions of management processes, attitudes towards the teaching profession, commitment, and economic provision of the School Happiness Scale and according to the branch variable in the overall total. Teachers’ perceptions of organizational happiness did not differ significantly according to the variables of gender, educational status, age, and seniority in the school where they worked.
Highlights
The concept of happiness, which has increasing importance nowadays, has maintained its significance since the beginning of history, and individuals alone and societies altogether have made efforts to achieve happiness
This study aims to investigate the levels of organizational happiness of teachers working in primary, secondary, and high schools and to determine whether there is a significant difference in terms of some demographic characteristics
According to the results of the data analysis, teachers’ general happiness perceptions and organizational happiness perceptions were observed to be high according to the subdimensions of management processes, attitudes towards the teaching profession, communication, commitment and economic provision of the School Happiness Scale
Summary
The concept of happiness, which has increasing importance nowadays, has maintained its significance since the beginning of history, and individuals alone and societies altogether have made efforts to achieve happiness. This concept, which is the meaning of life for everyone, has been the subject of studies and explanations in many disciplines such as psychology, medicine, and economy. Descartes defined happiness as follows, “Happiness is full spiritual satisfaction and inner contentment” (Türkben, 2010). Ekman and Friesen (2003) defined happiness as “a spiritual state containing feelings such as enjoying, feeling excited and relaxing and a general positivity beyond these feelings.” Veenhoven (2008) expressed happiness as a person’s enjoying life as a whole in the general sense. According to the Turkish Language Association, happiness is defined as “pleasure, gladness, prosperity, delightfulness, well-being, bliss, felicity achieved for fully and continuously fulfilling all the longing” (TLA, 2020). Hills and Argyle (2002) described happiness as a pleasant and desired characteristic that depends on the personal attitude and instincts and results from positive feelings and satisfaction with life. Ekman and Friesen (2003) defined happiness as “a spiritual state containing feelings such as enjoying, feeling excited and relaxing and a general positivity beyond these feelings.” Veenhoven (2008) expressed happiness as a person’s enjoying life as a whole in the general sense. Franklin (2010) defined happiness as “a positive feeling that has a long effect on people and consists of a series of satisfied pleasures.”
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