The purpose of this study is to examine the inf1uence of the motivating effect and dilution effect of employee stock bonus on the shareholder’s wealth. We use the event study methodology to test the existence of abnormal returns of the stock after the announcement of the stock bonus plan. Furthermore, regression analysis is adopted to examine the relationship between the employee stock bonus and the abnormal return. The empirical results show that the negative abnormal returns after the announcement of the employee stock bonus plan are not significant in general. However, positive abnormal returns are observed in the bull market, while negative abnormal returns in the bear market. Further analysis suggests that high percentage of employee stock bonus is not welcomed in the bear market since the dilution effect is large, but low percentage of employee stock bonus still has its motivating effect.