Hypothesis 4: Principals’ laissez-fair leadership style has no significant correlation with teachers’ job performance in secondary schools in private sector in Lahore district.
The information of Table 5 shows that laissez-faire leadership style has 2.25 mean ( X̅ ) score and standard deviation ( SD ) value is .34 of the participants ( N ) of 527, similarly, the job performance of teachers has 3.14 mean ( X̅ ) score and standard deviation ( SD ) value is .36 for the same ( N ) participants. Moreover, it expounds that the Pearson correlation coefficient score which is -.410 and p-value is .000.
The negative sign of Pearson correlation coefficient of -.410 and lesser p-value of .000 than alpha of .05 ( p < .05 ) are confirming that laissez-faire style of leadership of the principals and job performance of the teachers has statistically significant but has negative or inverse correlation in the schools. It guides that null hypothesis (Principals’ laissez-fair leadership style has no significant correlation with teachers’ job performance in secondary schools in private sector in Lahore district) is rejected, while, the significant p-value but negative Pearson correlation coefficient are showing that there is a statistically significant but reverse and moderate ( due to -.410 score of r-coefficient) relationship or correlation between principals’ laissez-fair leadership style and the teachers’ job performance in private secondary schools in Lahore district.