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.