The present study was conducted with the aim of assessing the learning organization and examining its deployment in the Azerbaijan Regional Electricity Company. The research method was descriptive-survey. The statistical population is all the employees with 1307 people in three provinces (East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan and Ardabil). The statistical sample was determined through Morgan table with 297 people and selected by stratified random sampling. The instrument used in this study is the Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ) by Watkins& Marsick. The content and construct validity of this questionnaire also its reliability was confirmed. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS20 and Smart-PLS 3 software. The results showed that the learning organization and its components individual learning (create continuos learning opportunities and promote inquiry and dialogue), group learning (encouraging collaboration and team learning), organizational learning (creating systems to capture and sharing learning, empower people towards a collective insight, connect the organization to its environment, and provide strategic leadership for learning) was significantly lower than average and only the level of dialogue and research in the organization are intermediate. Also using structural equation modeling with the least Partial squares provided a model for the learning organization in order to evaluating its components relationship. The results showed that the model has a strong utility (GOF = 0.813). As a result, it achieves the goals and strategies of the Azerbaijan Regional Electrice Company in being a learning path.
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