How Can Religious-Employee Groups
Help My Company?
“The bottom-line function is a business-oriented function.
Are they helping us understand the marketplace?
Are they helping us connect to the customer?”
Melinda Wolfe, American Express
TOP 50 BEST PRACTICE:
MONTHLY NEWSLETTER ON RELIGION
Dunnigan: Everybody makes decisions on what they
value and what they believe. At Ford it is all optional.
We have 10 employee-resource groups. If you want to
go to the activities of the Hispanic resource group that
business networks sponsor, then you can go to them.
If you want to go to the activities sponsored by the
Middle East–community employees, you can do those.
If you want to participate in the faith-based activities,
you can. I’m here representing the Ford Interfaith employee network. Our monthly distribution of information seeks to disseminate broader understanding so
that people can eliminate bias and prejudices and give
a variety of different religious perspectives. It goes to
about 4,000 employees in various parts of the world.
They are on the list because they choose to stay on the
