How age-inclusive human resource practices relate to career sustainability: the role of work-family enrichment and protean career orientation.

Liang Hou, Ruijing Shi, Zhongji Wang, Jun Zhang

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Thriving despite aging: how attitudes toward own aging empower thriving at work.Frontiers in psychology · 2026
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Liang HouDepartment of Human Resource Management and Public Administration, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, China.

Ruijing ShiDepartment of Human Resource Management and Public Administration, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, China.

Zhongji WangDepartment of Human Resource Management and Public Administration, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, China.

Jun ZhangDepartment of Human Resource Management and Public Administration, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, China.

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Abstract

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.

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age-inclusive HR practicescareer sustainabilityprotean career orientationwork-family enrichmentwork-home resource model

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PMID40787121

DOI10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1564719

PMCPMC12331745

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