Affiliation: Marriott International
Email: dvanrooy@hotmail.com

Biography

David Van Rooy is Senior Director, HR Business Process Management at Marriott International. In this role he is responsible for Global HR Operations and Systems for several Centers of Expertise (COE) including Compensation, Benefits, Workforce Planning, Performance Management, Associate Engagement, and Learning. Prior to this he was Director, Talent Management Solutions at Marriott International, where he led the associate engagement survey program as well as the assessment and performance appraisal programs for the hourly workforce. He was previously employed in the Talent & Organization Development Department of Burger King Corporation where his role spanned Leadership Development, Performance Management, Competency Analysis, Employee Selection, and Analysis, among other areas.

David received his doctoral degree in the I/O Psychology from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami. His dissertation assessed the longitudinal impact of unit-level employee engagement on organizational level outcomes including turnover, customer satisfaction, and financial performance. His main research interests involve personnel selection, employee engagement, turnover, and organizational development. He has published extensively on emotional intelligence where, along with Chockalingam Viswesvaran, David completed the first meta-analytic reviews on the predictive and construct validity of emotional intelligence. His research on EI has focused largely on the measurement and and applied organizational utility of the construct, including group differences, applicant reactions, and the evaluation of different assessment approaches.
 

Whitman, D.S., Van Rooy, D.L., & Viswesvaran, C. (In Press). Satisfaction and performance in work units: A meta-analysis of unit-level construct relations. Personnel Psychology.

Whitman, D.S., Van Rooy, D.L., Viswesvaran, C., & Kraus, E. (In Press). Testing the Second-Order Factor Structure and Measurement Equivalence of the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale Across Gender and Ethnicity. Educational & Psychological Measurement.

Whitman, D. S., Van Rooy, D. L., Viswesvaran, C., & Alonso, A. (2008). The susceptibility of a mixed model measure of emotional intelligence to faking: A Solomon 4-group design. Psychology Science, 50 (1), 44-63.

Van Rooy, D. L., (2006). Effect of automobile commute characteristics on affect and job candidate evaluations: A field experiment. Environment & Behavior, 38, 626-655.

Kacmar, M. K., Andrews, M. C., Van Rooy, D. L., Steilberg, R. C., & Cerrone, S. (2006). Sure everyone can be replaced…but at what cost? Turnover as a predictor of unit-level performance. Academy of Management Journal, 49, 133-144.

Van Rooy, D. L., Rotton, J, & Burns, T. M. (2006). Convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of aggressive driving inventories: They drive as they live. Aggressive Behavior, 32, 89-98.

Van Rooy, D. L., Alonso, A., & Viswesvaran, C. (2005). Group differences in emotional intelligence test scores: Theoretical and practical implications. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 689-700.

Van Rooy, D. L., Viswesvaran, C., & Pluta, P. (2005). A meta-analytic evaluation of construct validity: What is this thing called emotional intelligence? Human Performance, 18, 445-462.

Van Rooy, D. L., & Viswesvaran, C. (2004). Emotional intelligence: A meta-analytic investigation of predictive validity and nomological net. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 65, 71-95.

Van Rooy, D. L., Alonso, A., & Fairchild, Z. (2003). In with the new, out with the old: Has the technological revolution eliminated the traditional job search process? International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 11, 170-174.

Van Rooy, D. L., & Viswesvaran, C. (2007). Assessing emotional intelligence in adults: A Review of existing instruments and their application to increase human performance. In R. Bar-On, J. G. Maree, & M. J. Elias (Eds.). Educating People to be Emotionally Intelligent: Scientific Guidelines for Enhancing Human Performance. Heinemann Publishers, Portsmouth, NH.

Dilchert, S., Ones, D. S., Van Rooy, D. L., & Viswesvaran, C., (2006). Big Five Factors of Personality. In J. H. Greenhaus & G. A. Callahan (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Career Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Van Rooy, D. L., Dilchert, S., Viswesvaran, C., & Ones, D. S. (2006). Multiplying intelligences: Are general, emotional, and practical intelligence equal? In K. R. Murphy (Ed.). The Case Against Emotional Intelligence: What are the Problems and How Can They be Fixed? Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Van Rooy, D. L., Ones, D. S., Dilchert, S., & Viswesvaran, C. (2006). Emotional intelligence. In J. Greenhaus & G. Callahan (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Career Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dilchert, S., Ones, D. S., Van Rooy, D. L., & Viswesvaran, C. (2005). Emotional intelligence: New! Useful? In F. Avallone, H. Kepir Sinangil & A. Caetano (Eds.), Convivence in organizations and society (pp. 161-170). Milan: Guerini Studio.