Stock options are a popular way to provide additional compensation for key employees, and you can tie these options to the business’s success. There are two forms of stock options:
Providing incentive compensation and deferred compensation can give your business more flexibility in rewarding key employees.
Employee retention is often tied to some form of equity participation. However, there are many ways to provide this additional compensation, typically in a deferred manner. Actual employee ownership of shares is just one approach. Another is to share in the appreciation of the company’s stock value without actually owning stock.
A supplemental executive retirement plan (SERP) can be a highly effective way to provide additional compensation for key employees and persuade them to remain with the company longer.
Golden parachutes are created to protect executives in the event that a public company is sold, and they either lose their job or their responsibilities are substantially reduced.
Protect your business by having all key employees sign a non-compete agreement. This will restrict any employees who leave the firm from competing against your business for a period of time and possibly over a particular geographic area.
