Over-fulfillment

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The term over-fulfillment comes from the parlance of the socialist planned economy , i.e. from the GDR in the German-speaking area .

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Plan over-fulfillment refers to work that was done more successfully than was intended by the central business plan (usually a five-year plan ) within the respective labor standard . Accordingly, particularly hard-working workers were honored by the SED state, while among colleagues they were regarded as breaking standards who provoked an increase in the expected average production. In the GDR, Frida Hockauf and Adolf Hennecke in particular were stylized as symbols of a successful workers 'and peasants' state due to over-fulfillment of plans .

In later years of the GDR, the plan over-fulfillment according to the official motto "plan fulfillment and targeted surpassing of the plan tasks" was already firmly planned in that the original norm in the plan defense was not set to the maximum possible. Overachieving the plan was necessary not least because of the end-of-year bonus granted for this , which workers and employees often viewed as a fixed component of their income.

Nowadays the term is used at best with an ironic allusion to the language used in the GDR .