Learning Incentive Alignment

Definition

The degree to which individual and unit incentives support or undermine institutional learning. Misaligned incentives mean that even staff who want to learn face pressure to suppress evidence.

Example

Program managers evaluated on 'success rates' have incentives to hide failures. Learning requires revealing failures. Incentives are misaligned—individual success requires institutional ignorance.

Source

ILA-Core Section 7

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