Naomi Yip is the sous chef at one of the city clubs managed by Clubs International, a company that specializes in the operation of golf, city, and other private clubs. The company manages over 50 clubs nationally. Ms. Yip has been with the organization for five years and is considered one of the company's best and brightest culinary artists. Thomas Hayhoe is the executive chef at the club where Ms. Yip works and is her immediate supervisor. Her annual evaluations have been very good, and she has been designated as "ready for promotion" in her past two evaluations. In January, Ms. Yip announces she is pregnant and her due date is in July. In March, Chef Hayhoe completes his annual evaluation of Ms. Yip. He does not recommend her for promotion to executive chef, her next step up, citing, "the extraordinary demands on time placed on an executive chef within the Clubs International organization," which he claims Ms. Yip will be unable to meet. Chef Hayhoe also cites conversations he has overheard with Ms. Yip in which she declared, "I'm looking forward to spending as much time as possible with my baby." Clubs International has just been awarded the contract to operate a new and lucrative account, the Hawk Hollow Golf Club.

Assume that you were the human resource director advising the company's vice president of operations.

1. Do you feel Chef Hayhoe's evaluation of Ms. Yip is valid?
2. Based on Chef Hayhoe's recommendation, would you advocate that Ms. Yip be named the executive chef's position at the new account?
3. How would you respond if the new client objected to the appointment of Ms. Yip based on her pregnancy?