"Learning organization" is an organization which has remarkable skills in the areas of knowledge, creation, acquisition, implementation and transmission. Such an organization is capable of balancing its performance, so that it would reflex knowledge and new theories. Learning capacity and finding appropriate changes and its implementation are an important ability in today’s organization. Actually  learning capacity or developing appropriate changes are considered to be the most important competitive advantages of a humanitarian complex that could obtain in the competitive world of today. This requires creation and impressive usage of organizational learning. In this way, if Imam Sadeq University wants to achieve  its lofty goals, it should always increase its competitive advantages in attracting elites and their retaining, training and growing continuously and develop its abilities while encountering challenges and threats. Hence we shouldn’t ignore organizational learning as a permanent advantage and infinite resource.

In this study a brief survey of the literature of learning and organizational learning and its history is drown, then, various theories and learning cycles in the relative subject are reviewed. Afterwards properties of learning organization and its facilitating and prohibiting factors are mentioned. For measuring and analysis of the level of organizational learning Wick and Leon model as a conceptual framework was Chosen. Learning organization in this model includes the following features:

1 – The leadership enjoys an obvious vision to the future.

2 – It has remarkable abilities to provide necessary plans to achieve and evaluate the goals.
3 – It is sensitive to the internal and external news and information.

4 – It has innovation and creativity.

5 – It has the ability to accomplish and implement the matured ideas discussed in the previous steps.

According to the results of this research Imam Sadeq University has won a notable advantage regarding the leadership feature, but it hasn’t yielded good results regarding other features of organizational learning (Plan / evaluation / innovation / implementation and information) .

Based on the facts gained necessary suggestions for promoting the level of organizational learning at Imam Sadeq University are proposed.

Key Words

organizational learning, learning organization, visionary leader, creativity and innovation.