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Institutional Learning Architecture

Feedback Penalty Gradient

FPG

Definition

A diagnostic metric measuring the career or reputational cost of providing negative feedback as a function of the feedback's severity. Positive FPG means more serious problems carry higher costs to report—creating systematic bias toward reporting minor issues while suppressing major concerns.

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In an organisation with high FPG, reporting a typo in a document carries no risk, but reporting a strategic flaw exposes the reporter to retaliation. Information flow is inversely proportional to importance.

Source

ILA-ALR Section 3.2

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