Academic work environments are becoming progressively more digitalised and focused on performativity and commodification, increasing the potential to force an unwanted merge of the boundary between work and non-work domains. This study aimed to explore academic wellbeing and the role played by factors related to work-life merge. Data were collected from a cross sectional survey of 605 Australian and 313 UK academics, who were found to have a short version Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Score of 21.47 +/- 4.11 and 21.35 +/- 4 respectively, which is significantly below population norms. Australian men's scores were significantly lower than Australian women (20.7 +/- .31,p = .007). Job strain was evidenced by excessive work hours, high levels of intrusive work-related thoughts, reduced physical activity and a self-perception that work-life merge adversely affected psychological and physical health, and mostly only occurred to meet work demands. Action by government education and university leaders is urgently required to identify policy and management practices that are contributing to this ongoing health concern. The establishment of national and university based advisory groups and consideration of a data warehouse to curate a public dataset on the wellbeing of staff within universities could assist in ensuring the outcomes of any action are continually assessed.

BACKGROUND:Social support is an important moderator of poor well-being outcomes for nurses engaged in emotional labour with patients; however, the most effective support for renal nurses is not well understood compared with other specialties.OBJECTIVES:To identify patterns and themes in how renal nurses and two other specialties engage with patients' emotional expressions, express their own emotion and access and provide support for emotional expenditure.METHOD:Renal, emergency and palliative care nurses from Perth, Western Australia, were interviewed.RESULTS:Renal nurses engage in significant amounts of emotional labour with patients, and identify co-workers as the most important source of support due to their availability and a sense of shared experience. However, comparative analysis showed that renal nurses do not recognise their emotional expenditure as readily and have less certainty of co-worker support.CONCLUSIONS:Because their high levels of emotional engagement with patients are mostly positive, renal nurses are less prepared than other nurses to manage difficult emotional situations. As co-worker support is highly valued, organisations should train renal nurses specifically to support one another.

Globalisation has rendered the island nation of Australia more vulnerable to infectious livestock diseases, making bio-security a key concern of government. Although farmers are at the front line of disease surveillance, little is known about this group's behaviour and motives. A study to investigate on-farm bio-security practices - and in particular how farmers decide whether to report unusual symptoms in their livestock - was conducted with sheep and cattle producers in Western Australia. This article reports on the findings of the qualitative phase of the study, which consisted of in-depth interviews with 37 farmers. The study found that farmers make reporting and bio-security decisions based on the perceived risk to their enterprise. Trust in others was found to be a key contributor to perceived risk. In support of Wynne (2006), this study found that scientific institutions linked to the government suffered from lack of trust and credibility. If farmers are hesitant to trust government sources, important animal health messages may go unheeded.

Abstract Australia has become increasingly vulnerable to infectious animal diseases through the effects of globalisation. As a result, biosecurity – the safeguarding of livestock from disease – has become a key concern of government agriculture departments. Farmers are at the frontline of biosecurity; however, there appears to be only limited understanding of this group’s behaviour and motives, particularly what influences their decision to report unusual symptoms in their livestock. This article reports on an investigation prompted by an apparent decline in official reporting of livestock illness and deaths by farmers. A questionnaire measured the biosecurity and reporting practices of Western Australian sheep and cattle farmers in relation to factors such as trust, perceived risk, perceived control and self-efficacy. The findings show that while economic factors play a role in the decision to report, trust in the government is a key factor influencing reporting behaviour.

The relationship between contextual performance and job satisfaction is reexamined by considering the distinction between scores on measures of satisfaction and measures of dissatisfaction. Data from four samples and two measures of job satisfaction suggest that scores on measures of both satisfaction and dissatisfaction provide significant incremental validity in predicting contextual performance, that the satisfaction-dissatisfaction distinction is valid at the facet level, and that the satisfaction-dissatisfaction distinction cannot be accounted for by the artifactual explanations previously proposed in the literature.