Creating the environment for success can
be replicated anywhere. One of the key ingredients for
success in the Internet Economy is the granting of stock
options to all employees in a company.
Why? Giving workers a stake in the company they are working
for gives them ownership in the success of your company. Stock options allow
employees to operate with the premise that the money they are spending to complete
a project, in a very real sense, is their own. Savings and smart spending result.
Stock options are what fuel Silicon Valley’s success in California
and other burgeoning technology centers around the United States and around
the world. Once only a benefit to CEO’s, board members and senior executives
of a company, companies are now finding that giving stock options to all workers
is a win-win-win-win proposition.
Giving employees a stake in
the company is:
I. Beneficial
to the employee – acting as a motivator, stock options
crystalize the fact that the success of the company is also
the success of the individual employee. Productivity and
motivation are the result. II.
Beneficial to the company – the company is only as
strong as its employees. Motivated workers makes a stronger,
more successful company. III. Beneficial
to the shareholders – owners of the company’s stock
want to see the company be successful, just as employee
stock-option holders. An increase in productivity and motivation
is good for the company and can be rewarded with a higher
stock price. And,
IV.
Beneficial to the economy
– the creation of wealth contributes to the success of local, state, national
and international economies. The multiplying effect of one dollar in salary
or bonus or exercised stock option is a huge boon for the health of the economy.
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