the initial research query:How does an organization's leadership style effect employee job satisfaction and the organization's performance in virtual work environments? Extend your literature review to include twelve to fifteen scholarly sources that inform your knowledge of the current research on your topic. As you work through the articles and create the literature review, further refine your main research question, What sub questions emerge?

Then, develop your research questions to determine the appropriate design and method for your study. For example, if your review of the literature and development of questions results in variables and testable hypotheses, design your study accordingly. If your review of the literature and development of questions do not hypothesize known variables in relationships, design your study accordingly.

Next, determine the data that you need to collect to answer your research questions or test your hypotheses. How will you collect that data? What instruments will you use? What population or sampling frame will you use? How will you sample from among that group? Be sure to give attention to the internal and external validity of your study (or to the credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability of a qualitative study). What are some of the limitations and delimitations of your study?

Next, consider how you might analyze your data. Although you are not expected to provide an in-depth defense of data analysis procedures (e.g., statistical analysis), propose at least three key ideas of what the data analysis would need to accomplish to help you determine answers to your research questions (e.g., the analysis would need to show the differences or relationships, the analysis would need to rule out these other variables, the analysis would need to look for patterns in certain data, or the analysis would need to show "this" pattern).

In addition to the twelve to fifteen journal articles used in your literature review, also include three to four sources that help you support and defend the design and method choices you are making throughout your proposal (e.g., why your qualitative or quantitative approach is appropriate, why your sampling strategy is sound, why your data collection methods are reasonable).

Conclude with an assessment of how the results of your research would further the organizational behavior discipline (or the section of it that you are studying) and other possible questions researchers should consider.