A strong research question must be answerable with data you can actually collect. Compare "What do employees think of leadership?" to "What are employees' perceptions of leaders who use transformational leadership styles?" The second one is specific enough to operationalize and investigate.
One of the keys to a strong research question is, is it answerable from the data I'm going to collect, will I be able to answer that question? Which then means, am I going to be able to get at the problem I'm looking at in my document? So I want to make my question specific. I don't want to say, what do employees think of leadership? I might say, what are employees perceptions of leaders who use transformational leadership styles that's much more easy to get at and much more defined. And if you're looking for assistance with your research questions, join our free Dissertation Help community to get help from dissertation chairs who've helped many people get through this process and graduate.
