Investigation of the relationship between inclusive leadership behaviors of school administrators and organizational happiness level of counselors/psychological counselors

In this study, it was aimed to examine the relationship between school administrators' inclusive leadership behaviors and school counselors/psychological counselors' organizational happiness level according to the perceptions of school counselors/psychological counselors in public schools in Siirt and Batman provinces. Relational survey model was used in the research.The central of this study consists of a total of 666 school counselors/psychological counselors that working in the provinces of Siirt (220) and Batman (446) in the 2021¬2022 academic years. The sample consists of 422 school counselors/psychological counselors working in 33 pre¬school, 90 primary school, 146 secondary school and 153 high school education institutions in Siirt and Batman provinces and districts, selected by simple random method. "Personal Information Form", "Inclusive Leadership Scale" and "Organizational Happiness Scale" were used as data collection tools in this research. In the analysis of this research SPSS 22 package program was used. Descriptive statistics, independent sample t¬test, ANOVA test, Tukey test, Pearson correlation analysis and regression analysis techniques were used in this research. According to the perceptions of the school counselors/psychological counselors, it was determined that the inclusive leadership behaviors of the school administrators were at a "high level". As a result of the research, it was determined that the organizational happiness perceptions of the school counselors/psychological counselors were similarly at a "high level". The research findings reveal that there is a positive and highly significant relationship between school administrators' inclusive leadership behaviors and school counselors/psychological counselors' perceptions of organizational happiness. As a result of the regression analysis, it was seen that the inclusive leadership behaviors of school administrators predicted the organizational happiness of the school counselors/psychological counselors. In general, it was concluded that school administrators' inclusive leadership behaviors explained %37 of the variance of teachers' organizational happiness levels.