Longitudinal Study Versus Cross Sectional Study

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Scenario: A specific department within an organization has a high turnover rate; employees of this department have a shorter average tenure than those of other departments in the company. Skilled workers are leaving and the worker population contains a high percentage of novice workers.
The two strategies I have chosen to offer a research approach to will be the time horizon for the study and unit of analysis. For the time horizon there are two basic concept to choose from cross-sectional study or a longitudinal study. A cross-sectional study is a one shot approach to collecting data over a short set period of time where a longitudinal study collect data at several point in time after changes have been made to the study environment. Based off

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