Andrea Derler

Andrea Derler
Visier Inc. · Research

PhD, Economics
Open to academics who want to test hypotheses with a data-science approach, our data has 15+ million employee records.

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Introduction
www.andrea-derler.com TOPICS: - Leadership Strategy - Leadership Development in organizations - Learning - Talent management - Diversity & Inclusion - Organizational Culture - Performance Management
Additional affiliations
March 2018 - March 2020
Neuroleadership Institute
Position
  • Managing Director
Description
  • As part of this role, I aim to produce science-based and practical insights about humans in organizations by exploring how findings in the fields of neuroscience and psychology play out in organizational reality.
Education
January 2010 - June 2014
University of Hagen
Field of study
  • Business Administration, Leadership & Organization

Publications

Publications (20)
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Organizations can no longer afford to rely on assumptions about what drives manager effectiveness. We analyzed 3.4 million employee records to reveal the complex interplay between manager tenure and team performance, and found that the effects of manager tenure on the likelihood of leading a high-performing team varies from one organization to the...
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Current approaches to leadership and management development seem fundamentally broken, despite a thriving leadership development industry that represents more than a $60 billion annual investment by global firms. Too often, management development programs lack rigorous measurement. In-depth interviews with 22 HR representatives reveal how leading...
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Current approaches to leadership and management development seem fundamentally broken, despite a thriving leadership development industry that represents more than a $60 billion annual investment by global firms. Too often, management development programs lack rigorous measurement. In-depth interviews with 22 HR representatives reveal how leading...
Data
People managers are demanding generative AI tools to make their jobs easier. 87% of managers say that genAI tools can improve their roles by providing more insights into their employees and freeing up time for planning and leadership. The question is not if HR can deliver these tools, it's when. We surveyed 400 full-time people managers to underst...
Data
What does team size have to do with designing high-performing teams? It turns out—a lot. Our new research found the ideal team size is six to ten people. To better understand effective team size and how work gets done, we collaborated with Dr. Amy C. Lewis, Professor of Management at the College of Business at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Dow...
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The tech layoffs that began in 2022 have dominated media cycles and grabbed public attention. Are they representative of what’s actually happening across the job market as a whole? To get a better understanding of the layoff landscape, we dove into the data and interviewed CHROs about their experiences with layoff and reduction in force (RIF) even...
Data
Compensation plays a critical role in employee experience and has a direct impact on employee retention—yet, it remains incredibly complex. As employee preferences and new laws bring more transparency to pay, organizations face new, substantial challenges with pay inequity, wage compression, and retention. To get a better understanding of compensa...
Data
We recently found that paid time off (PTO) utilization is an underreported metric in the Visier community. So we dove into the data to uncover the impact of PTO utilization on burnout and the rest of the employee lifecycle. The analysis in this report used available data from a subpopulation of 14 enterprise sized organizations with employees in th...
Experiment Findings
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The present report describes the findings from an experimental research study powered by data science, based on the millions of live employee records in the Visier Community Data. The goal of this study: To test if turnover contagion is a real phenomenon that can be detected and better understood in its nature, effect size, and time frame.
Data
With the Great Resignation showing no signs of waning, replacing lost talent while also hiring for the new and emerging skills needed to recover in a post-pandemic world has become a business imperative. To better understand hiring trends before and during the pandemic, we analyzed data from our Visier Community Data, a unique database of anonymize...
Research
Attracting and retaining employees is top of mind for most CEOs, however, research shows that resignations have been trending up throughout the summer. It’s imperative that business leaders have the ability to assess voluntary risk within their organizations and take the necessary steps to reduce employee exits. But where to begin? In this Visier...
Data
Based on a survey of 688 working professionals across a variety of industries, the report provides insights into how changes in the workplace have led to the emergence of specific psychological needs by employees. It also offers a checklist for organizations that want to strengthen employees’ confidence and optimism by addressing these needs.
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The report is meant to demonstrate the positive impact growth mindset initiatives have had on organizations. It describes how learning to adopt a growth mindset can help employees in times of change and disruption to adapt to the new reality and support successful transformation. The report leans on existing data NLI has collected from client wo...
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Organizations devote countless hours and expend enormous amounts of energy developing their leadership models. So how come so few leaders actually use them? NLI’s latest industry research project sought to understand this imbalance. And the resulting white paper, “Idea Report: Building Brain-Friendly Leadership Models,” offers a compelling set of e...
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In NLI’s new Idea Report, “Growth Mindset Culture,” we present and analyze data from 20 organizations around the world using growth mindset in various forms. The Report offers compelling insights into how billion-dollar giants think about the future; includes a Q&A with growth mindset’s originator, psychologist Carol Dweck; features thought-provoki...
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Why can a growth mindset be helpful in the performance management process? We argue that it can help the feedback-receiver more open to feedback, the feedback-giver conduct less biased evaluations and create a less competitive team environment.
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between leaders’ work context and their prototypical implicit follower theories ( pIFT). The authors assume a dual structure of pIFT and argue that leader preferences for certain employee traits and behaviours are influenced by their perception of the prevailing market conditions and orga...
Conference Paper
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Applying a socio-analytic perspective on organizational cultures, we explore some of the feedback loops between environment and individual behaviour that partly lead to cases of ethical and financial misconduct. Based on autoethnographic accounts of insider-reports we analyzed some of the most prevalent collective values in the British investment b...

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