Jenny GJ Bauer GF Füllemann D Broetje S Brauchli R 2020 OBJECTIVES Practitioners and organizational leaders are calling for practical ways to explain and monitor factors that affect workplace health and productivity. This article builds on the well-established Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model and proposes an empirically tested ratio that aggregates indicators of job resources and demands. In this study, we calculate a ratio of generalizable job resources and demands derived from the JD-R model and then translate the ratio into the language of company stakeholders. METHODS We calculated a ratio based on measures applied in a large stress management intervention study (n = 2983) and report the findings from cross-sectional analysis with health and productivity outcomes from same-source and separate-source data. RESULTS Findings showed a strong and unambiguous increase in health and productivity measures with each step of increase in the ratio. Loss in explained variance due to aggregation of two factors into a single ratio is small for measures which are known to be predicted by both factors simultaneously. CONCLUSIONS A translation and visualization of the ratio that is accessible to practitioners and organizational leaders is presented and its use in companies discussed. application/pdf https://sonar.ch/global/documents/103223 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1002/1348-9585.12101 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/31773879 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Journal of occupational health. - 2020 JD-R model employee surveys organizational change translational research Adult Cross-Sectional Studies Female Humans Male Middle Aged Occupational Health Occupational Stress Stakeholder Participation Surveys and Questionnaires Work Performance Workplace "Resources-Demands Ratio": Translating the JD-R-Model for company stakeholders. http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501