Meanwhile, it too implies that null hypothesis (Principals’ democratic
leadership style has no significant correlation with teachers’ job
performance in secondary schools in private sector in Lahore district)
is rejected. While, positive Pearson correlation coefficient and the
significant p-value were manifesting the positive and statistically
significant but feeble or weak correlation, due to the small score of
r-coefficient of .195 which was very close to zero, between the
leadership style of principals and job performance of the teachers in
secondary schools in private sector in Lahore district.
Table 5. Principals’ laissez-faire leadership style correlation
with teachers’ job performance in the private schools in Lahore
district.