THE EFFECT OF CYBERNETIC PATTERN ON THE CHARACTERISTIC OF LEARNING ORGANIZATION IN UNIVERSITY: A CASE STUDY OF IRAN

Abstract

By debating the issue of academic independence, it is expected that the academic systems act
more efficiently than before and academic system had to rethink about the structures, aims and
goals to understand the complex nature of its organization and widen its social realm with a more
modified and proper design. The present research aims at studying the effect of cybernetic
structure on characteristics of learning organizations. 163 of faculty members of Iran universities
were chosen as the sample and participants of the present study through random classification
method and using a standard questionnaire. In order to analyze the data and answering the
research questions and also studying the fitness of the conceptual model which introduces a
meaningful network of relationship among the variables, the path analysis and structural
equation model analysis were used. The findings suggest direct effects of the Cybernetics model
on learning organization have been (0.63).