本文主要是討論在台灣公司兩種的員工激勵制度:員工認股權證與員工股票分紅。由於公司的激勵制度之設計主要就是把員工的報償與公司的利益相結合,來促使公司的價值能提高。因此,本篇主要就是探討台灣公司所發行的員工認股權和員工股票分紅對公司績效的影響效果,以及探討影響公司發行員工認股權和員工分紅所存在的決定因素。在此主要所用的公司績效衡量有三種:市場績效、營運績效與乘數績效,利用此三種績效衡量來檢視公司的激勵制度是否會影響公司的績效表現。最後,本研究結果顯示:1. 公司規模越大或成長機會越高的公司,其代理成本越高,公司會傾向發行員工認股權跟員工分紅來降低公司代理成本。2. 公司發行員工認股權後似乎對公司績效沒有顯著的影響。3. 公司給予員工股票分紅會使公司的營運收入增加,且亦會使公司次年的營收增加。因此,員工分紅制度對公司而言應該是一種有效的激勵員工的制度。
The aim of this study is to investigate the associations between compensation and firm performance and the determinant of equity-based compensations in Taiwan. In particular, it emphasizes on executive stock option (ESO) and stock bonus compensation schemes and attempts to examine how compensation schemes may affect market performances, operating performances and multiples performances. The results suggest three main findings as follows. First, firms with larger size or high growth opportunity tend to adopt executive stock option and stock bonus compensation schemes. Second, there exist weak relationship between executive stock options and subsequent firm performances after the adoption of executive stock option. Thirdly, it suggests positive relationship between stock bonuses and firms’ operating performance. Moreover, it also finds that stock bonus payments have lagged effects on subsequent firm performance. This thesis concludes that stock bonus payments do provide some incentives for the employees to work in the interests of shareholders, that is, to improve firm performances.