Serving on Empty: When Depleted Servant Leaders Experience Languishing

Servant leaders prioritise the ability to put the needs of others above their own. As a result, they may become depleted since they will start neglecting their own wellbeing. This can cause servant leaders to become depleted, where they first start to feel physically depleted, and then they become mentally depleted. This can also lead to languishing, where they begin to work on auto-pilot. However, research to date has not explored whether physical depletion happens before mental depletion, and if languishing is likely to happen when servant leaders neglect their own wellbeing to serve their purpose of helping others.