The relationsip between high school teachers' perceptions on school administrators' social justice leadership behaviors and organizational happiness levels

This research aims to reveal the relationship between teachers' perceptions of school administrators' social justice leadership behaviors and their organizational happiness In addition, this study also examined whether school administrators' social justice leadership behaviors according to teachers' perceptions and teachers' organizational happiness differ significantly in terms of gender, marital status, professional seniority, working period at their current school, branch, educational background, the district, and the type of school they work at. For these purposes, correlational survey model was used in this study and the sample, which has been determined by the disproportionate cluster sampling method, consisted of 575 public high school teachers working in Avcılar, Bağcılar, Beylikdüzü, Büyükçekmece, Esenyurt, Küçükçekmece districts on the European side of Istanbul. The research data were obtained with a data collection tool including a personal information form, the Social Justice Leadership Scale-Teacher Form developed by Özdemir and Pektaş (2017a) and the Teacher Organizational Happiness Scale developed by Korkut (2019). Descriptive statistics were used while analysing the data. Whether sub-dimensional variables differ significantly according to demographic characteristics was tested through MANOVA, the relationship between social justice leadership and organizational happiness was examined through Pearson correlation analysis, and simple linear regression analysis was performed to investigate the level of prediction of social justice leadership in organizational happiness. According to the research findings, levels of school administrators' social justice leadership behaviors according to teachers' perception and teachers' organizational happiness are high. In the context of teachers' perception levels of school administrators' social justice leadership behaviors; it was determined that teachers with a bachelor's degree have higher perception levels than teachers with a graduate degree, teachers working in Bağcılar than teachers working in Avcılar, teachers working in Beylikdüzü than teachers working in Büyükçekmece, and teachers of Anatolian Imam Hatip High School than teachers working in other schools. In the context of teachers' organizational happiness levels; It has been observed that female teachers are happier than male teachers, teachers with 1-5 years of seniority are happier than teachers with 11-15 years of seniority and 21 years or more of seniority, and Anatolian High School and Anatolian Imam Hatip High School teachers are happier than Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School teachers. In addition, it was determined that teachers working in Bağcılar and Beylikdüzü are happier in their organizations, while teachers working in Avcılar are generally more unhappy. Additionally, a moderate positive relationship has been found between school administrators' social justice leadership behaviors according to teachers' perceptions and teachers' levels of organizational happiness. An important finding of the study is that school administrators' social justice leadership behaviors according to teachers' perceptions significantly predict their organizational happiness.