The Academic Work Environment in Australian Universities: A motivating place to work?

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Academics job satisfaction and job stress across countries in the changing academic environments (2014, background): “In addition, Olsen and Near (1994) and Winer and Sarros (2002) found that job satisfaction is high when their job is clearly defined.”
Effective leadership in higher education: a literature review (2007, background): “Two studies of Australian academics found consideration to be positively related to organizational commitment, but that it was unrelated to job involvement (Winter et al., 2000; Winter & Sarros, 2002).”
Occupational stress in UK higher education institutions: a comparative study of all staff categories (2005, background): “…administrative work (Kinman, 1998), lack of promotion opportunities (Kinman, 1996); inadequate salaries (Daniels & Guppy, 1994a, b); role ambiguity (Winter & Sarros, 2002); diminishing resources, increased teaching loads and student:staff ratios; pressure to attract external funds, job insecurity;…”
Effort-reward imbalance, over-commitment and work-life conflict: testing an expanded model (2008, background): “In particular, the central importance of professional recognition and respect to the wellbeing of academic employees has been emphasised (Cross and Carroll, 1990; Kinman et al., 2006; Gillespie et al., 2001; Winter and Sarros, 2002).”