The purpose of this study was to investigate what is the relationship between the learning organization activities on organizational performances in the manufacturing industry and non-manufacturing industries based on the structural equation model analysis. The specific questions regarding this purpose were: First of all, what the individual level learning organizational activities on organizational level activities as an intermediary variables does effect? Secondly, do the individual level learning organizational activities as intermediary variables in the manufacturing industry have a relationship with organizational performance? Thirdly, what is the relationship between the learning activities on an individual level in the non-manufacturing industry, and the organizational performance when the learning activities on the organizational level act as an intermediary? As the research method, the questionnaire was used. A total number of 312 employees from 213 listed companies and registered securities responded to the questionnaire. Frequency analysis, χ2, t-test, multiple regression, ANOVA, and LISREL were performed to analyze the data. Major findings were as follows: First, the support for the individual learning has to be in the level of organization. It is necessary to apply a strategy to build learning organization activities with continuous learning activities, and the activities on empowerment, as a main role regarding the difficulties in reality which are unable to sufficiently meet 7 types of learning activities. Second, the learning organization activities in the manufacturing industry and the learning organization model of organizational performance indicated the same model with the result in a prior study. Third, the model from the learning organizational activities in the non-manufacturing industry and organizational performance indicated that it is very different with the result in a prior study. Fourth, the model of learning organization has a number of outcomes according to the characteristics of organization and type of industry. In accordance with the model of learning organization activities, it has been confirmed that there are various kinds of learning organization models depending on corporation characteristics although it is ideal to have a relation which is satisfied with every learning organizations.
Key words : learning organization, learning organization activities, organizational performances, corporation characteristics