This interesting report (found via here and here) describes studies that examine the factors relating to job satisfaction.
It seems like by far the most important factor determining satisfaction is trust in management. The more openness there is, the more management will be trusted. Methodologies like Scrum make the status of projects very visible, and improve the satisfaction of those working on them (and hence the chance of success of the projects).
The worrying thing for some is that a feeling of doing better than one's peers is also positively correlated to satisfaction, and many believe that having exclusive access to information gives them this power. It's a difficult job to convince them that the successful projects they will achieve through adopting open methodologies will ultimately make their lives better than a feeling of power through exclusive access to information.
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