Abstract: The major research of the paper is about individual continuous learning capability and its impact on individual performance in complex and dynamic business environment. Individual is one of the most important learning entities for organizational learning/team learning and learning organization/learning team. In this paper,firstly the research in the field of individual learning is briefly reviewed. Based on the former organizational learning model by the author,then the concept of individual learning and individual learning capability is put forward,the definitions of nine behaviors and nine capabilities for individual learning are established,the measurement model is developed. Based on 244 samples from Chinese companies,the author has done statistical analysis and found that,the measurement instrument for individual learning capability has acceptable reliability and validity,and also individual learning capability is significantly positively correlated with individual task and contextual performance. It is hoped that this research could be served as a certain kind of basis for future research on individual learning.

Key words: individual learning, organizational learning, learning organization, task performance, contextual performance