Happiness of Municipal Employees: The Case of Manisa Metropolitan Municipality

The increase in the number of metropolitan municipalities and the extension of their responsibility areas to the provincial borders after 2014, there has been a large increase in their service offerings. This extraordinary increase in service offerings has brought more workload and responsibility to municipal employees. In this context, the personal happiness levels of the municipality employees was examined in terms of different demographic variables such as gender, age, marital status, education, title, participation in social life, total working time in the profession and unionization. Explanatory Factor Analysis (EFA) was applied to the data of 203 personnel of Manisa Metropolitan Municipality by using Oxford Happiness Scale; and five sub-dimensions were obtained. For the analysis, “t test” and “one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was preferred. According to the analyzes, it was found that the happiness levels of municipal employees showed significant differences in terms of happiness, gender, marital status, education, title, and participation in social life. ON the contrary, the happiness levels didn’t significantly differ in regard to age, total working time in the profession and unionization