Examining the relationship between empowering leadership and organisational happiness

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between empowering leadership and organizational happiness based on teachers' perceptions. In addition, the study also aims to examine whether teachers‟ views on empowering leadership and organizational happiness significantly differ according to variables such as gender, educational background, marital status, professional seniority, type of school, and duration of working with the current school principal. In line with these objectives, the study employed a relational research model, one of the quantitative research designs. The study population consisted of teachers working at various educational levels (preschool, primary, secondary, and high school) in the province of Malatya during the 2024–2025 academic year. The sample of the study comprised 778 teachers selected from the population using the convenience sampling method. The data were collected using the Personal Information Form, the Empowering Leadership Scale, and the Organizational Happiness Scale. Since the data showed normal distribution, the analysis was conducted using arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Independent Samples t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and simple linear regression. The findings of the study revealed that teachers working at different educational levels had high levels of both empowering leadership and organizational happiness. Furthermore, a moderate, positive, and statistically significant relationship was found between empowering leadership and organizational happiness based on teachers‟ perceptions. In addition, empowering leadership was identified as a significant predictor of organizational happiness. It was also determined that empowering leadership explained approximately 48.7% of the variance in organizational happiness.