Assessing the Impact of Empowering Leadership on Organizational Happiness at Northern Technical University Presidency

Abstract

The leadership style of modern organizations greatly influences the attitudes, behaviors, and performances of organizational members. One of the latest approaches of leadership is empowering leadership which has recently attracted much attention because of its influence on increasing participation, autonomy, and motivation of employees. In this study, the effects of empowering leadership on organizational happiness of employees at the Presidency of Northern Technical University will be examined. Descriptive-analytical method will be applied to investigate the association between the research variables. The population size was set at 539 individuals who worked as employees at the university presidency. For this reason, a purposeful sampling approach will be used in which only the employees having an educational background of technical diploma or above would be included without considering high-ranking positions within the organization. Analysis was done in SPSS version 26 and AMOS version 24 in order to determine the descriptive statistics and to prove the proposed hypotheses. The results show that the concept of empowering leadership, whether as a general construct or as specific aspects, has a statistically significant effect on organizational happiness. Of the various aspects of empowering leadership, improving the meaning of work, increasing the involvement in decision making, showing faith in employee competence, and offering freedom from the bureaucratic system were found to have made notable contributions towards making employees happy at their jobs. Therefore, empowering leadership is a good way for managers to enhance organizational happiness. Based on these conclusions, it can be recommended that managers practice more self-monitoring, involve employees in organizational activities, exercise less authoritarianism, and decentralize decision-making processes.