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The purpose of this study is to examine the realities around workplace innovations and to find policy goals needed to raise firms' productivity, throughout examining the distribution of work organizations in the Korean manufacturing firms. Based on the classification method in the previous studies, work organizations in manufacturing firms are classified as one of three types(and seven types in detail), non-systemic, Taylorist(Tayloristic, hybrid Tayloristic, and work organizations with a low functional flexibility) and high- performance work organization(Lean, hybrid Lean, and discretionary learning work organization). Two hundred manufacturing firms hiring 100 or more employees in 2009 are the samples of the survey done in 2009. The results show that the portion of firms with a non-systemic work organizations is 16.5% of the sample firms and the portion of firms with high-performance work organizations is 19% of the total firms, while 64.5% of the samples are firms with Taylorist work organizations. It means that almost 2/3 of the Korean manufacturing firms belong to Taylorist work organizations and the level of work organizations in the Korean firms should be developed to high-performance work organizations. The European data equivalent to the realities in Korea imply that the portion of firms with Taylorist work organizations in Europe 15 countries is only 13.6%. The results show that the Korean manufacturing firms should move from non-systemic or Taylorist work organizations to high-performance work organizations and policy regarding workplace innovations should support fully the transformations of work organizations.