Joni DelanoeijeKU Leuven | ku leuven · Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB)
Joni Delanoeije
PhD in Business Economics; MSc in Psychology/Ethology
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Introduction
My research topics include human-animal interaction, ethology and sustainable HRM and work wellbeing. Currently, I mainly conduct research on new ways of working and including animals in working and education environments using a one welfare approach, i.e. simultaneously addressing animal and human well-being. Combining insights from organizational and systems psychology, ethology and anthrozoology, I aim to further our understanding of interactions between people and animals in our society.
Additional affiliations
November 2020 - April 2021
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- I am in charge of my own research project "My work feels like home": Effects of companion animals in the 2020 (home-)workplace on employee wellbeing and performance. Supervision: Prof. Marijke Verbruggen (main); Geert Van Hootegem (co). Joint project with HIVA-KU Leuven (Sustainable Development)
March 2020 - October 2020
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- In the campus animal project, I aim to map the effects of campus animals (e.g. the KU Leuven campus cat) on students, personnel and the animal(s), identify boundary conditions for these effects and provide campus animal policy recommendations. For this project, I set up a collaboration between KU Leuven, Washington State University, Ghent University and Odisee University College to be able to simultaneously address the student, employee and animal perspective in this animal-assisted project.
January 2020 - April 2021
Odisee University of Applied Sciences
Position
- Lecturer
Description
- Lecturing the module 'Canine capabilities: Cognition and emotion in dogs & implications for dogs-assisted interactions' at the post-academic education Dogs Assisted Interactions
Education
July 2019 - June 2020
Gedragscentrum voor honden [Canine Behavior Center]
Field of study
- Applied Dog Behavior
January 2019 - June 2019
Odisee University of Applied Sciences
Field of study
- Dog Assisted Interactions
September 2012 - May 2013
ELTE Budapest
Field of study
- Ethology
Publications
Publications (52)
Overgewaaid vanuit Amerika, is het binnenbrengen van honden in de werkomgeving sinds een tiental jaren ook in Europa in opmars. Hoewel een 'kantoorhond' in eerste instantie een vreemd idee kan lijken, is het geen verwonderlijke trend. Immers, bij een derde van de Europese huishoudens maakt een hond deel uit van het gezin. Wetende dat 50 tot 75 proc...
This study proposes a novel methodology to calculate reuse and apply this to Flanders. We combine available data from the Flemish reuse network about its reselling of reusable goods with new survey data about disposal and acquisition behaviours of a representative sample of 1500 Flemish citizens. Using these data, we map the amount of reuse channel...
As most university-based animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) feature interactions with dogs, little is known about the feasibility of providing opportunities to interact with cats. Few studies have examined employee or student interest in interacting with on-campus cats, and virtually nothing is known about the role of participants’ characteristic...
The current study teases apart positive and negative reactions to home-to-work boundary role transitions (HWTs) and examines their consequences for employees' work engagement and psychological strain. Based on boundary theory and appraisal theories, we expected that positively appraised HWTs would be related to more engagement and less strain where...
The inclusion of cats in animal-assisted interventions (AAIs; i.e. structured interventions that include animals in human services for the purpose of human therapeutic gains; IAHAIO, 2018) is increasing. This is surprising given that feline needs (e.g., stable territory) appear contradictory to AAIs (e.g., repeated territory relocation). This study...
We assessed attitudes of higher-education staff and students' (i.e., openness, perceived risks, expected impacts) towards on-campus animal visits. Assessing these attitudes is important as attitudes predict human behaviour directed towards the animals involved (Kraus, 1995), which likely impacts their welfare (Lund et al, 2006). Cross-sectional, qu...
Werknemers wereldwijd ruilden sinds de COVID-19 pandemie massaal hun reguliere werkplek in voor het thuiskantoor, waar in plaats van collega’s gezinsleden deel uitmaken van de dagelijkse werkomgeving. Naast menselijke huisgenoten maken bij ongeveer de helft van de Vlaamse huishoudens ook huisdieren deel uit van het gezin. Meer nog: sinds de pandemi...
Smartcollars function as non-invasive tools to measure animals’ physiological responses and physical activity in naturalistic settings. The current study describes PetPace smartcollar data collected in a college campus cat with owner-provided survey data to compare data collected in the context of campus visits of the cat with the cat’s behavior at...
Due to the onset of COVID, many employees have been working from home. Since dogs closely cohabit with their owners, it is likely that this affects both dogs' and owners' behaviour and activities. Moreover, this impact is likely to occur on teleworking days since owners may spend more time with their dog on these days. We hypothesize that on telewo...
Delanoeije, J., Pendry, P., Peeters, E. & Moons, C. (2021, June 22-24). College campus cat: Exploring PetPace collar data and survey data to measure physiological responses and physical activity during campus visits. [Unpublished conference abstract]. 30th International Society for Anthrozoology Conference [Virtual], Buffalo, NY, U.S.
Delanoeije, J. (2021). De mens-dier relatie in mens-dier interacties [The human-animal relationship in human-animal interactions]. Presented at the Terugkomdag AAI organised by Animal Assisted Projects. 1 April 2021, Antwerpen, Belgium [Online]
Delanoeije, J. (2021). Work-home boundary role transitions: Telework before, during and after COVID-19 [Invited lecture]. Invited by the Kanter Lecture Series, Center for Families, Purdue University. 24 March 2021, West Lafayette, U.S.A. [Virtual]
Delanoeije, J., Verbruggen, M., & Verelst, L. (2021). Naar een duurzaam thuiswerkbeleid [Towards sustainable home-based telework policies]. Practitioner's presentation for the Ekonomika Alumni event, Department of Work and Organisation Studies. 22 March 2020, Leuven, Belgium. [Virtual] [Professionally oriented]
Van alle circulaire strategieën wordt hergebruik consistent gerangschikt als één van de meest circulaire – hoger dan recyclage. Maar hoewel recyclage sterk aanwezig is in academisch en industrieel onderzoek, is er maar weinig geweten over hergebruik in eender welk land. Daarom onderzochten HIVA & Steunpunt Circulaire Economie de grootte en de milie...
Delanoeije, J. (2021). Impact van flexibele werk-privé praktijken: Thuiswerk voor, tijdens en na COVID-19 [Impact of flexible work-home practices: Home-based telework before, during and after COVID-19]. Invited by VOCAP Vereniging van Organisatie-, Consumenten- en Arbeidspsychologie. Presented at the VOCAP Themareeks remote working, Online. (profes...
Delanoeije, J. (2020). "There's an animal on my desk": Companion animals in employees' (tele-)work lives [Invited lecture]. Research-practitioners colloquium of the Department of Social Psychology, Goethe University. 8 December 2020 [changed to virtual format].
Thuiswerk speelt meer dan ooit een prominente rol in de wereld van werk en baant zich een weg in de werk- en privésfeer van steeds meer werknemers – met in België een verdubbeling van het aantal thuiswerkers van 17% naar 35% van de werknemers sinds de coronacrisis. Hoewel dit ‘nieuwe werken’ haast niet meer valt weg te denken uit het dagelijks (wer...
Delanoeije, J. (2020). Telewerk en werknemerswelzijn en -prestatie: Voor, tijdens en na COVID-19 [Home-based telework and employee wellbeing and performance: Before, during and after COVID-19] [Invited lecture]. Practitioner's conference "Het nieuwe normaal van de anderhalve meterorganisatie" [The new normal of the one and a half meter organization...
This report addresses blind spots in current research about the understudied circular phenomenon of reuse and the variety of formal (i.e. included in our economy through regulated economic units and protected workers) and informal (i.e. part of an informal economy in which transactions do not get registered) channels through which it may occur. It...
In the list of circular economy strategies, reuse is consistently ranked as one of the most circular strategies – higher than recycling. But while recycling is omnipresent in academic and industrial research, very little is known about the practice of reuse in any country. To fill that gap, the Circular Economy Policy Research Centre undertook a st...
Campus cats, i.e. cats who spend time on campus and interact with students and personnel, are gaining attention over the world. At least twenty-one campus cats have been identified to date. These include freely roaming cats-either stray cats or owned cats living nearby-who deliberately spend time on campus. The effects of these cats on students and...
This quasi-experimental study examines the impact of telework on employees’ stress, work-to-home conflict, work engagement and job performance on a between-person and a within-person level. Data were collected in a Belgian company that had launched a pilot telework initiative. Employees in the intervention group (N = 39) were allowed to work from h...
In dit werk wordt ingegaan op scheidingsgerelateerd(e) probleemgedrag (SGP) of -gedragingen (SGP’s) bij honden. Ter vergemakkelijking worden doorheen dit werk vanaf nu de afkortingen SGP en SGP’s gebruikt. Op basis van wetenschappelijke literatuur en literatuur gericht aan hondeneigenaren wordt een overzicht gegeven van de huidige inzichten rond SG...
Employees worldwide have nowadays shifted their homes into home-offices, involving also household members in and around their newly designated working spaces. Importantly, not just children and partners but also non-human family members engage in the daily work hurdles at the home-office. Cats may prevent efficiently sending out error-less emails w...
Een belangrijke vraag is of thuiswerk de werk-privécombinatie vergemakkelijkt of bemoeilijkt, waarom en voor wie. Enerzijds stelt onderzoek dat thuiswerk werknemers meer flexibiliteit geeft, waardoor zij werkzaken voor privézaken kunnen onderbreken, daardoor beide rollen beter met elkaar combineren en aldus minder werk-naar-privéconflict ervaren. A...
It is generally assumed that dogs show increased attention towards humans. A major part of this includes attention towards visual cues such as bodily gestures. We tested empirically whether dogs are visually attentive towards human body movement. Based on methods from visual perception research in humans, we used point‐light figures (PLFs) to inves...
This report documents and analyses the societal impact of the citizen science project "CurieuzeNeuzen Vlaanderen", which has mapped the air quality at unprecedented spatial resolution across the region of Flanders (Belgium). The project mobilized 20,000 citizens to measure NO2 air quality levels in front of their houses, and involved a unique colla...
In response to the rising number of individuals who have to combine work and home responsibilities, organizations increasingly offer work-home practices. These are HR-practices such as telework and part-time work that can help employees to combine work and home roles. However, extant research on the relationship between work-home practice use and b...
This dissertation studies the effects of work-home practices (i.e., HR-practices that can facilitate employees’ work-home combination, such as home-based telework or part-time work) on employee outcomes such as work-home balance, well-being and job performance. Despite their growing prevalence in organizations, studies to date show both positive an...
Does working from home on a given day complicate or rather facilitate combining work and home roles that day, why and for whom? To answer these questions, we examined how a teleworking day affects daily work-to-home conflict and daily home-to-work conflict. Based on boundary theory, we expected these relationships to be mediated by daily role trans...
In deze lezing spreek ik over honden als katalysator van menselijke interacties en andersom, mensen als katalysator van hond-hond interacties. Hierbij combineer ik mijn achtergrond als wetenschapper, hondentrainer en psycholoog. Rond de hond als katalysator van menselijke interacties werd al veel onderzoek gedaan en worden theorieën allerlei gebrui...
Given the growing number of employees with caring responsibilities, offering work-life practices (i.e. HR initiatives designed to help employees balance their work with other life roles) may help organizations to cope with increasing employee stress and attract and retain the best-qualified employees, as these practices can enhance employees’ work-...
Delanoeije, J. (2018). ‘My work feels like home’: Dogs at the 2020 (home-)workplace. European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Conference. Lisbon (Portugal), 5–7 September 2018.
Delanoeije, J., & Verbruggen (2018). Effects of home-based telework on employee well-being and performance: A pilot daily diary intervention study. European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EAOHP) Conference . Lisbon (Portugal), 5–7 September 2018.
Delanoeije, J., & Verbruggen, M. (2018). Effects of home-based telework on employee well-being and performance: An intervention study. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) Small Group Meeting “Working anywhere, anytime: Work flexibility from a management and an occupational health perspective”. Leuven (Belgium), 12–13...
Prior research has shown that work-related ICT-use outside work hours is generally related with more work-to-home conflict, but that this effect can be mitigated or even reversed when people have an integration preference. In this study, we posit that the moderating role of integration preference in itself depends on the work environment because th...
Delanoeije, J., & Verbruggen, M. (2017). Micro-role transitions: A day-to-day approach to explain inconsistent outcomes of home-based telework. Biennial International Conference of the Dutch HRM Network. Nijmegen (The Netherlands), 9–10 November 2017.
Delanoeije, J., & Verbruggen, M. (2017). Micro-role transitions: A day-to-day approach to explain inconsistent outcomes of home-based telework. IESE International Conference of Work and Family: "Ideal Workers". Barcelona (Spain), 3–4 July 2017.
Delanoeije, J., & Verbruggen, M. (2017). Micro-role transitions: A day-to-day approach to explain inconsistent outcomes of home-based telework. Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP). Dublin (Ireland). 16–19 May 2017.
Gadeyne, N., Verbruggen, M., Delanoeije, J., & De Cooman, R. (2017). All wired, all tired? Work-related ICT-use outside work hours and work-to-home conflict: The role of integration preference and culture. Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP). Dublin (Ireland). 16–19 May 2017.
Meeussen, L., & Delanoeije, J. (2017). Fitting in to find balance: A person-environment fit approach to work-lfife balance. Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP). Dublin (Ireland). 16–19 May 2017.
Delanoeije, J. (2017). Werk-privé balans en nieuwe werkvormen: Effectiviteitsverschillen over werknemers [Work-home balance and new ways of working: Effectiveness differences over employees]. Happy @ Work TMAB Business Events [professionally oriented]. Grimbergen (Belgium), 21 April 2017.
Verbruggen, M., & Delanoeije, J. (2016). Upward career goals, work-life conflict and well-being: Examining longitudinal cross-over effects in dual-earner couples. Work and Family Researchers Network Conference. Washington D. C. (USA), 23–25 June 2016.
Delanoeije, J., & Verbruggen, M. (2016). It's not about what they do, it's why they do it: Employee motivations in the study of work-life practices. Work and Family Researchers Network Conference. Washington D. C. (USA), 23–25 June 2016.
Dogs’ responsiveness to instructions of the handler is known to be influenced by several factors. In this study we examined whether reward-handler dissociation has an effect on the obedience performance of family dogs with basic training history. We looked at situations involving human–dog interactions under controlled laboratory settings by measur...
Verschillende onderzoeken bekijken in dieper perspectief op welke visuele signalen honden zich baseren in hun communicatie met de mens. Door gebruik te maken van welgekozen experimentopzetten wordt nagegaan op welke manier honden onze lichaamstaal al dan niet begrijpen. Het gebruik van puntlichtfiguren, computergestuurde abstracte voorstellingen va...
Terugkomdag AAI-Beest [Regular meeting ANIMAL-AI]
De voorbije decennia is er een groeiende belangstelling voor de studie van mens-dier interacties. Vanwege hun veronderstelde positieve invloed is er de laatste jaren een opmars bezig in de betrekking van dieren in psychotherapie (“Animal Assisted Therapy”). Terwijl toepassingen in individueel georiënteerde therapie zich uitbreiden, blijft het gebru...
Projects
Projects (6)
The goal of this master's thesis research study (2011-2013) was to understand the role of companion dogs in human family systems and its relevance for systems therapists.
The role of dogs in the lives of employees and the potential benefits for organizations when facilitating employees’ care for their dogs has been largely neglected in research to date. However, the new labour market generation of millennials surpasses baby boomers as the largest dog owning generation and will make up for up to 75% of the workforce by 2025. Organizations could respond to this reality in two main ways. First, companies may allow dogs on site. Animals at work may increase their owners’ but also coworkers’ resilience to stress and increase job performance. While companies are already adopting this practice, no research to date has empirically studied its effects on employees. Second, companies may allow employees to work from home. Dogs at home may hinder cited drawbacks of telework, such as the risk for social isolation or too little work detachment. We will test the effects of dogs at the (home-)workplace on employee well-being and job performance. We expect beneficial but also potential harmful effects depending on employee, co-worker and dog characteristics. Our studies contribute to the understanding of effects of dogs at work for multiple parties and are a first step in formulating guidelines and providing tools for HR managers to effectively implement dog-at-work or telework policies.
This research internship project is part of the larger SWARMIX project, which is about laying the foundations for the design, implementation, and adaptive control of heterogeneous multi-agent systems that are composed of humans, animals, and robots, working in cooperation to solve distributed tasks. The main aim of this internship was to gain in-depth insight in remote dog-human communication, including dogs' ability to perceive human movement.
