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Companies Must Set Diversity Goals

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1. Hard Hit by the Auto Industry’s Troubles, Detroit Aims to Keep Its Young
Experience still counts. In today’s workforce, how much it counts depends on whom you’re asking. Companies may employ several generations of workers—and each group has an opinion about whose way is the best.

2. He to She: Eaton Corp. Helped Transgender Employee
Audrey Hopkins, 47, became the first transgender individual hired into Eaton Corp.’s 100-member information technology group in October 2005.

3. Faith Groups Let People ‘Bring Their Whole Selves to Work’
Ford and Acro illustrate how Detroit employers of different sizes are working to manage religious diversity in the workplace. To be sure, it is not always an easy task. Some civil rights groups say not all employers take such an enlightened view of religious diversity.

4. Diversity Among Detroits Doctors

Diversity Among Detroit’s Doctors

Detroit’s Henry Ford Health System creates a designated Muslim prayer space.
By Amy Whitesall
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ecently, Henry Ford Health System president and CEO Nancy Schlichting had a visit from Dr. Mostafa Ibrahim.

    Ibrahim, a gastroenterologist who has been at Henry Ford Hospital for 25 years, explained that the 25 to 30 Muslim doctors, nurses, technicians, patients and family members who gather for Friday prayers at the hospital currently use the hospital’s chapel.

    They move some chairs to make room in the back of the chapel, and the hospital provides sheets that they spread on the carpeted floor to kneel on. It’s functional, Ibrahim said, but it would be better if the hospital had a designated space for Muslim prayer.

    "That’s my new task," Schlichting says. "And he said the food could be better, so we’ll work on that too."

    The example is one of the results of having executives, doctors and support staff from about 60 countries.

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Amy Whitesall is a reporter for Crain’s Detroit Business, a sister publication of Workforce Management. To comment, e-mail editors@workforce.com.

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