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turnover

n. in industrial and organizational settings, the number of employees who leave their jobs during a given period. A distinction is generally made between controllable turnover, as by dismissal or voluntary resignation, and uncontrollable turnover, as by retirement or redundancy. The turnover rate is calculated by dividing controllable turnover by the average number of employees in the organization or unit during this period. This rate can be an indicator of the general level of job satisfaction among employees. Also called labor turnover; staff turnover. See involuntary turnover; voluntary turnover.

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sequence effect

sequence effect

in within-subjects designs, a difference in scores that emerges because of a particular arrangement of treatments—that is, the presentation of one level of the independent variable has an effect on responses to another level of that variable. A researcher can test for a sequence effect by administering the treatments in various different arrangements (e.g., the arrangement ABC vs. ACB, vs. BCA, and so forth). The sequence effect is not to be confused with the order effect.