This book takes a broad look at how companies can use incentives, ranging from stock options to cash bonuses to gainsharing, to motivate and reward employees in growing companies that seek to create a more productive "ownership" culture. Using both technical discussions and case studies, it explores incentives both as self-sufficient tools and as complements to retirement-oriented plans such as employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).

Published in 1999, this book shows holders of compensatory stock options how to make the right choices and avoid costly mistakes. It helps explain, in clear and understandable language, what options are, how they are taxed (including how to prepare IRS Form 1040), and how to maximize their value.

As the use of stock options has increased, so has the degree of legal, accounting, and regulatory complexity associated with employee option plans. This all-new fifth edition by equity compensation expert Alisa J. Baker presents a straightforward, comprehensive overview of both the big-picture issues and the technical details related to designing and implementing stock option plans. In addition to examining the rules, the book looks at "hot" issues and provides illustrative exhibits, a glossary, a bibliography, and primary source materials, plus a seminal article by Corey Rosen on stock plan design.

This is a more selective and detailed reference than The Stock Options Book. (Many people get both books; for example, the Certified Equity Professional Institute has adopted both as texts for its program.) The book addresses administration, state securities laws, federal securities laws, preparing for an IPO, death, stock options and divorce, evergreen provisions, and underwater options and repricing. A lengthy glossary rounds out the book. (Note: If you are looking for Alisa Baker's material, which used to be the 100-page-long chapter of this book, that has now been revised and expanded to become the first chapter of The Stock Options Book, 5th ed.)

Who gets stock options? How many? How often? And when? Many companies and professional advisors are familiar with how employee stock option plans work, but they lack detailed information on how companies are actually designing and using their plans. This 498-page book describes and analyzes the results of a pathbreaking survey of 247 U.S. companies conducted by the leading research and information organization in the field. The book is the most comprehensive resource available to the public on how companies design stock option plans. It mainly focuses on broad-based stock option plans (i.e., those covering most employees), but also addresses executive-only plans and employee stock purchase plans.

This book is a small, easy to get through, guide on stock options and what can happen if you do not manage your options properly. The book offers several scenarios, based on a variety of employee situations (Pre-IPO and Post-IPO, New Employee at an Established Company, Old Pro at an Established Company, and Leaving your Company) and explains what the employee could have done to better their situation.