微软执行了17年的股票期权奖励制度,已于2003年9月宣告终结,取而代之的是向员工发放限制性股票,并在全球同步执行。 作为有效激励的手段之一,期权激励与固定工资、奖金、福利等其他薪酬形式相比,具有周期长、获益空间大、针对性强的特点,因此,股票期权一直以来被称为企业留住员工的“金手铐”,颇受技术人员的青睐,更成为一些高科技企业惯用的薪酬奖励制度。自软件巨人微软公司1982年首次公开发行股票以来,股票期权已经使其数千名员工跻身百万富翁之列。然而前不久,微软公司对外宣布将对员工的薪酬制度进行重大变革,公司CEO斯蒂夫·巴尔默说,“这是一次 Microsoft implemented its 17-year stock option rewards system, which ended in September 2003, replacing restricted stock with employees and running them globally simultaneously. As one of the effective means of incentive, option incentive is characterized by long cycle, large benefit-oriented space and strong pertinence compared with other remuneration forms such as fixed salary, bonus, welfare and so on. Therefore, stock option has always been called enterprise stay Staff living in “handcuffs,” quite popular with technical staff, but also become the usual reward of some high-tech enterprises reward system. Since software giant Microsoft first issued its shares in 1982, stock options have put thousands of its employees on the list of millionaires. However, not long ago, Microsoft announced that it would make significant changes to its employee compensation system, said company CEO Steve Ballmer. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime