How do the newer forms of leadershipethical, servant, and authenticcompare to the transformational approach to leadership? Multiple choice question. All three of the newer approaches improve upon transformational leadership and have more applications in the workplace. Of the three new approaches, authentic leadership was found to offer the most improvement to transformational leadership. Ethical leadership is the only new positive approach to leadership that builds upon the transformational style. The newer approaches offer little in the way of advantages when compared to transformational leadership