Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to study the relationship among the employee stock options program, the profitability and value of listed companies on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. The data were collected from 2014-2018, and there were 143 companies, which revealed information about the project to grant shares to employees. In fact, there was the total of 184 data / company year. Then the data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics by using multiple regression analysis. The result of the research showed that the granting stock option program for executives had a positive relationship with profitability at a significant level of 0.01, indicating that the granting of stock options to executives was able to create incentives to work as one part of the business and this resulted in better operations. However, there was no relationship between the stock option program and the value of the business, indicating that even the stock option program was granted to employees, this was not able to increase the value of the firm.