Given the recent turmoil surrounding stock options, employers and employees alike may be looking more skeptically at this once-popular form of compensation. Among the issues to be considered: How effective are stock options in aligning the interests of managers with the interests of shareholders? Do broad-based option programs improve company performance? And should companies be required to include stock option compensation as an expense on their income statements?
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