This exercise asks you to identify an ethical issue that may arise during the staffing process. The assignment asks you to play the role of a staffing professional and to identify what you see as the ethical issue that you are facing in each scenario and to identify what actions you could take to resolve the ethical issue with which you are confronted.

Kelley Company is considering opening an office in a new location and is interested in identifying what talent may be present in that new location. To attract possible job candidates, who they otherwise may have a difficult time identifying, and to build the foundation of a talent pipeline for future business expansion the company posts a job ad for a position that does not exist. Do you see an ethical problem in what Kelley Company is doing by posting a job advertisement for a position that does not exist? If you see, an ethical issue, what is it$?$ Is there any way you see that Kelley Company could collect this information without having to resort to positing a job ad for a position that does not exist? How could it collect this information in other ways?