there are no "stand taking" heroes for one. Or at least doing it publicly and conspicuously with big noise seems to be not considered a good style in society here(just my observation for 10+ years here) What i've seen a manager, good person, does when he is forced to pigeonhole somebody into incorrect category, it is to write in plain English in performance review form - "performance is at the grade X, assigning grade Y because of required grade allocation"