Good practice Imported

Diversity Council of executives

Austria · Viena · National · See the Austria profile · See the Viena profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 47% 70/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

In the Austrian branch of an international IT company there is a so-called Diversity Council of Executives, which represents a strong institutionalization of the area of gender and diversity . The Diversity Council is embedded in the local business strategy. It consists of memb

Details

Promoter: Companies from IT sector
Power domain: Economic Power
Methods / tools: Awareness-raising, Monitoring
Region (NUTS): AT13
Keywords: institutionalisation, organisational development, diversity council

Context

In the Austrian branch of an international IT company, a Diversity Council of Executives institutionalises gender and diversity as a cross-cutting issue: its members span management, human resources, managers and employees across hierarchical levels, areas and origins, and the council is embedded in the local business strategy at management level, giving gender and diversity agendas weight, regular processing and a high level of legitimacy.

Implementation

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

ProPEGE — Equal Leadership catalogue — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 70/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 47% in this catalogue (719 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by ProPEGE consortium (Equal Leadership)

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Transferability / replicability1/3

How readily the practice can be replicated or transferred to other contexts (graded 0–3).

Impact on gender equality1/1

Whether the practice demonstrably improved gender-equality outcomes.

Effectiveness1/1

Whether it achieved its intended objectives.

Efficiency1/1

Whether results were achieved at a reasonable cost and effort.

Gender-mainstreaming embedding1/1

How well gender equality is embedded across strategy, continuity and financing.

Evaluated outcomes1/1

Whether the outcomes were formally evaluated or measured.

Curator validation1/1

The ProPEGE curators' validation of quality, scope and final approval.

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Evidoria. Diversity Council of executives. Persistent ID: 04e31401-00d7-4c4c-910e-829f33a2a35d.

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