ANSWERS 2026 UPDATE 100 PERCENT
CORRECT GT CERTIFICATION TEST SCRIPT
2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
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⩥What are the four individual attributes that have an impact on
leadership skills? Answer: General Cognitive Ability
Crystallized Cognitive Ability
Motivation
Personality
⩥Fluid Intelligence Answer: Intelligence that usually grows and expands
up through early adulthood and then declines with age
⩥General Cognitive Ability Answer: General intelligence that is linked
to biology rather than experience
⩥Crystallized Cognitive Ability Answer: Intellectual ability that is
learned or acquired over time
⩥3 aspects of motivation Answer: Willingness, dominance, and social
good
,⩥Effective problem solving and performance are the outcomes of what?
Answer: Leadership
⩥Performance Answer: The degree to which a leader has successfully
performed the assigned duties.
⩥Types of Environmental influence Answer: Internal & External
⩥Environmental Influences Answer: Factors that lie outside the leader's
competencies, characteristics, and experiences
⩥Internal Environmental Influences Answer: Outdated technology,
facilities, expertise of subordinates, and communication
⩥External Environmental Influences Answer: Economic, political, or
social issues; natural disasters
⩥Criticisms of the skills model Answer: Does not explain how skills
lead to effective leadership performance
Use of individual attributes is closely related to trait theory
⩥Behavioral Approach to Leadership Answer: Focuses exclusively on
what leaders do and how they act
, ⩥According to the behavioral approach, leadership is composed of what
two kinds of behaviors? Answer: Task behaviors and Relationship
behaviors
⩥Task behaviors facilitate what? Answer: Goal acccomplishments
⩥Relationship Behaviors Answer: Help followers feel comfortable with
themselves, with each other, and with the situation in which they find
themselves
⩥Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) Answer: A
questionnaire developed in the Ohio State studies used to measure
perceptions of a leader's style by his or her subordinates
⩥The Ohio State studies viewed what two behaviors as independent?
Answer: Providing structure & nurture; meaning that a leader could be
high in both
⩥The Michigan State studies identified what two types of leadership
behaviors? Answer: Employee orientation & production orientation
⩥How do the Michigan Studies differ from the Ohio State studies?
Answer: Originally the MS studies theorized that the two leadership