ANALISIS PENERAPAN EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN (ESOP) TERHADAP KINERJA KEUANGAN & PERFORMANCE SAHAM (Studi Kasus Terhadap Emiten Yang Melakukan Penerapan ESOP di Bursa Efek Indonesia Tahun 2007)
ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Program) is a corporate action that share ownership program in which companies give or sell their shares to employees with a limited number. Expected from the actions of this corporation ESOP can increase loyalty, productivity and management will result in improved performance of the Issuer or Public Company, which will ultimately improve the performance of Indonesia's capital marketThe research data was taken from the six companies that make corporate action ESOP in 2007. Financial performance data derived from financial statements of each company for one year before the corporate action and take two years after the ESOP implementation. Stock performance data taken from the company's financial statements, and also the volume of stock trading company for one year prior to application of the ESOP and the ESOP two years after implementation.Analysis method was used to answer the research problem is the identification of quantitative descriptive analysis. The analysis was conducted to describe the condition of financial performance and stock performance of companies and compared to a year before and two years after implementation of the ESOP. Conditions described by liquidity, financial performance, profitability, and sales growth, and performance shares to be described by Price Earning Ratio, Earning Per Share and Stock Trading Volume.The results showed that applying ESOP company has the financial performance and good stock performance during the year prior to application of the ESOP, the ESOP from the application of the six companies have the impact of increased financial performance during the year of ESOP adoption, particularly sales growth are up significantly, and for liquidity , the profitability of the various fluctuations in 2008, and in 2009 a decline in all aspects of one of the global financial crisis. For the analysis of stock performance does not seem that the market reaction is increasing due to the implementation of the ESOP, it is seen from the graph of stock trading volume in each company.