TY - JOUR AB - Purpose While current human resource management (HRM) research on the relationship between HRM and employee well-being has focused on performance-oriented HRM (e.g. high-performance work practices), scholars have called to broaden the perspective and to explore HRM practices that are indeed well-being-oriented. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the empirical diffusion of well-being-oriented HRM configurations, the conditions in which these are used, and their associations with health, happiness and relational well-being.Design/methodology/approach Analyses are based on a probabilistic subsample of 1,364 employees in Germany. Employee data are used, since individual employees' perceptions of HRM practices are crucial for understanding the effects of HRM on employee well-being. Configurations of well-being-oriented HRM practices are identified using latent class analysis.Findings Findings show that (1) employees experience diverse configurations of well-being-oriented HRM practices, which differ in their investment levels and the specific practices used; (2) these configurations are contingent on organizational-level and individual-level characteristics and (3) these configurations have diverse associations with different well-being dimensions. Importantly, configurations characterized by higher investments are not always associated with higher well-being, and the highest well-being is associated with a configuration based on high investment in well-being-oriented HRM focused on support from supervisors.Originality/value This exploratory paper is the first to analyze configurations of well-being-oriented HRM practices. By focusing on well-being-oriented HRM it complements previous research which usually addresses how HRM systems designed to enhance performance affect employee well-being. VL - 8 IS - 3 SN - 2049-3983 DO - 10.1108/EBHRM-09-2019-0080 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/EBHRM-09-2019-0080 AU - Hauff Sven AU - Guerci Marco AU - Gilardi Silvia PY - 2020 Y1 - 2020/01/01 TI - Well-being-oriented HRM configurations: diffusion, contingencies and outcomes T2 - Evidence-based HRM: a Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 253 EP - 271 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -