If you’re interested in how your interviewees’ bosses handled stress, then structure your questions around that topic. Ask the interviewee about specific events that their boss handled well or didn’t handle well because they were stressed out, how their boss handles stress in general, whether the stress trickled down to the employee level, what effect their boss’s stress levels had on the interviewee, etc. Just focus on one subject. That way, you’ll get oodles of good information that you’ll need to use for your paper for Week 8. Also, make certain to ask a final question about what the interviewee learned as a result of the stuff they talked about. In other words, if the topic is stress,
What did the interviewee learn about how to handle stress as a leader? Formulating CIT questions is not as easy as it sounds, as you’ll quickly find out. They need to be focused on your objective; otherwise, the answers you get will be all over the board and not useful to you. Additionally, they need to be open-ended rather than questions that can be answered with a simple yes or no. That’s a mistake a lot of people make in the beginning. When you construct a question, make sure that it has to be answered with an explanation.
