Abstract
Currently, industrial firms are producing variety of products with many employees divided to functionally different groups in collaborations. Although it is broadly known that communication between those groups are so important for successful productions, it is often said that those communications are difficult, to which Tanikawa et al. (2015) hypothesized that differences of regulatory focus of each group are affecting, based on the regulatory fit theory (Higgins, 1997). In this study, we conducted a group problem solving experiment with a desert survival task, operationally setting up two different goals (promotion focus goal, P, and prevention focus goal, D). Participants were randomly assigned to an experimental couple with the same goal (PP / DD) or the different goals (PD). Results showed differences of answers to the problems and utterance contents between couple-conditions, even though no differences in the total number of utterances. Relation between Communication and motivation will be discussed.
