In 2007, the Bavarian state government issued guidelines on leadership and cooperation for the state administration. The section on delegation begins: Führung beinhaltet die Delegation von Verantwortung und Zuständigkeiten. Leadership includes delegating responsibility and areas of competence. A separate section on goals says that leaders should develop goals. As a rule, they should agree these goals with their staff.
The section on results says who checks the work. Führungskräfte sind mit ihren Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern für die Arbeitsergebnisse gemeinsam verantwortlich. Leaders and their staff are jointly responsible for the results. The checking should be done mainly by the staff themselves, on their own responsibility and as they go. The leader should accompany this self-checking.