2. Review of literature:
The purpose of this study was to find out if there is any significant Relationship between the elements of knowledge
management and organizational learning, As it is well-known, the important element of any organization should be
knowledge and be adaptive to the changes which make the organization suitable with new demand and up to date
condition, ongoing change means learning, learning organization is an essential element for survival and success. To
reach this important goal every manager should try to bring about the situation for people of an organization to
achieve the highest level of knowledge in order to stay up to date. We have to plan to implement learning in all
levels of the organization, according to Doming (1985) total quality management which is ongoing learning and
quality, depends upon the plan used by managers to make learning knowledge as the always organization activity.
As Nichida (1990) said "knowledge and love are same mental activity to love you have to learn, in order to learn, we
need to plan execution and control on proper base, love is unconditional, permanent, and an unchangeable element
for the development and advancement", since we believe Knowledge management is the key factor for
organizational development. Knowledge should be taught by systematic planning and creating the culture of
learning at entire levels of organization, according to peter Dracker (1990), organization is socially conscious,
Knowledge and innovation driven. Organization is more lattices and a network than a hierarchy. All characteristics
which were mentioned above are due to learning organization. Organizations which rely on quick fixes do not we
necessarily learning from their endeavours. To avoid making the same mistake. You need to share knowledge about
what did work and what did not throughout your organization so that other functional areas with similar problem can
apply the solution. Too often a problem is solved by one department, but because the solution is not shared with
other departments, only a part of the system benefits while the rest struggle on. Peter Senge (1990) points out that
system's thinking is a necessary component of a learning organization, for this important mission we try to find out
any Relationship between knowledge management and learning organization among faculty members of Islamic
Azad University, Shiraz branch.