“Motivation is internally generated; it can’t be forced upon someone.” Discuss this notion, describing some specific human resource management techniques to support your views.

Provisionally I agree with this view that motivation is internally generated, not forced, as each different person has different drives in their heads, and if one man does not want to work he will not, or at least not well. Many outside factors can affect this though, influencing motivational drive, which causes a reasonable argument for both sides of the question. In this essay I will attempt to outline all the most important arguments flying both ways to come to a rounded conclusion.
Armstrong described personal motivation in 1992, saying that ‘a well motivated person is someone with clearly defined goals who takes action which he or she expects will achieve these goals’. This would be the most textbook description of motivation, as there are different motivational goals to be achieved by every separate person and different factors that motivate them in the first place, this is where the theories come into play. Motivation can though be split into two obvious categories, th...