Your clinic is one of many that is critically short on Registered Nurses. After being directed to think of several “outside-the-

box”

recruiting suggestions by your Clinic Director, you explain your plan to recruit

“passive candidates” by asking former employees to return and giving them incentives to bring their current coworkers with them. You also suggest offering a free continuing education seminar in your newly renovated meeting rooms where you could show off your positive employment brand and promote your clinic as a great place to work. The director replies “I don’t have a problem with showing off our new digs and getting our former employees back, but don’t offer bribes to them to steal their coworkers directly from their employers.

That’s ‘employee poaching’ and it’s not right. It could start a hiring war and push wages up too.” Discuss the ethics of passive recruiting and address the concerns of the Clinic Director. (LO 1, 2, 4)