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Abstract
This study proposes that interpersonally-oriented behaviors will play an increasingly pivotal role in workers evaluations of their satisfaction with their work and supervisors evaluations of their employees task performance. Three separate meta-analyses are used to examine the moderating effect of year on the relationship between interpersonally-oriented behaviors (social support, considerate leader behaviors, and individualized consideration leader behaviors) and satisfaction, and a fourth meta-analysis explores the moderating effect of year on the relationship between supervisor ratings of organizational citizenship behavior and ratings of task performance. The relationships between more task-oriented work variables (skill variety, initiating structure, and intellectual stimulation) and satisfaction were examined to ensure that any observed differences are due to interpersonally-oriented behaviors and not a general increase in the strength of relationships. Our results suggest an increase in the social support-job satisfaction relationship in more recent years but do not suggest the same for the other three interpersonally-oriented behaviors.