Family-Friendly HRM Practices and Early-Career Doctors Well-Being: The Sequential Mediating Roles of Psychological Climate of Care and Work-Family Enrichment

Drawing on Conservation of Resources (COR) and spillover theories, we investigate the impacts of the availability of family-friendly HRM practices (FFHRM: Level 2) on early-career doctor well-being in Pakistan. We specifically investigate the direct effects of FFHRM practices as organizational-level resources on well-being and their indirect effects through psychological climate of care (PCC; Level 2) a resource caravan passageway and work-family enrichment (WFE; Level 1) which facilitates the accumulation of personal resources. Utilizing multilevel analyses in Mplus 8.3 and data derived from 46 HR managers and 246 early-career doctors in Pakistan healthcare organizations, we found that the availability of FFHRM practices indirectly and positively influenced early-career doctors' well-being via PCC and WFC. Overall, we generate new insights into how FFHRM practices are linked to employee well-being receiving that the relationship is underpinned by resources type processes. We highlight important implications for HRM theory and practice.