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.

Spencer Company has been alarmed at the number of employees in key positions who are leaving their organization. To gauge whether there are any current employees in key positions who may jump ship, the company posts a blind job ad for a position that does not exist. Do you see an ethical problem in what Spencer Company is doing by posting a blind job ad for a position for a position that does not exist? If you see, an ethical issue, what is it$?$ Is there any way you see that Spencer Company could collect this information without having to resort to positing a blind job ad for a position that does not exist? How could it collect this information in other ways?