Exploring Happiness Level of Teachers working in Private Educational Institutions in Islamabad: A Case Study of Beacon House School System

The purpose of research study was to explore the “happiness level of teachers” at Beaconhouse Metropolitan Campus, Islamabad. It was a study to find out the comparison of happiness with different variables on the basis of demographic characteristics. It has been concluded from research that the quality of human resource and environment of an organization depends on happy mental state and feelings of workers. It is important for schools to measure how happy mental state is responsible for quality education and learning and also how much educational institutes expects happiness among teachers. The study aims at finding out the happiness level of teachers of BMC and of developing an action plan for developing a better happy workplace. Both descriptive and referential statistics were used for data analysis. The sample study included all male and female teachers of Beaconhouse with the random sampling, sample size (n=100). The data was collected by using Oxford Questionnaire for Happiness (Hills, (2002). Data collected was analyzed using t-test, ANOVA and Chi-square. The ultimate goal of research was realization of teachers' sense of happiness, which is an inevitable requirement of meaningful education. The objective of research study was to measure happiness level of teachers working in BMC for developing teachers’ motivational program and again measuring this happiness level after some interval using same tool in order to see the impact of motivational program on teacher’s happiness level. The result shows general happiness score of teachers is above average which exhibit most of the teachers are happy with no significant relation between happiness level of teachers on the basis of demographic characteristics. As most of the variables of study have shown no significant relationship, therefore future study might be conducted on other variables such as impact of Parental relationship, working environment, managerial style on happiness level of teachers