ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1564719
This article is part of the Research TopicAging and WorkView all 12 articles
How age-inclusive human resource practices relate to career sustainability: The role of work-family enrichment and protean career orientation
Provisionally accepted
- Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
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Drawing on conservation of resource theory and work-home resources model, this study explores how age-inclusive human resource (HR) practices related to employees' career sustainability through their work-family enrichment. In line with work-home resource model, we introduce a boundary condition, protean career orientation, to explain when our proposed associated may unfold. We collected data in three waves from 244 employees to test our hypotheses. Results show that age-inclusive HR practices promote employees' career sustainability through the mediating effect of work-family enrichment. Our findings also emphasize that protean career orientation strengthens the relationship between age-inclusive HR practices and work-family enrichment. Age-inclusive HR practices were more positively linked to career sustainability via work-family enrichment when employees had a high (versus low) protean career orientation. Our research provides a better understanding of how and when age-inclusive HR practices lead to sustainable career.
Keywords: age-inclusive HR practices, Career sustainability, work-family enrichment, Protean career orientation, work-home resource model
Received: 22 Jan 2025; Accepted: 05 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Hou, Shi, Wang and ZHANG. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Liang Hou, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, 102617, Beijing Municipality, China
JUN ZHANG, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, 102617, Beijing Municipality, China
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