Workplace learning plays a key role in developing individuals & teams and it is highly supporting to the efficient organizational functions for sustainability. The learning occurs in every individual while he faces various workplace situational changes and challenges. It may shape him to become expert in his field. At the same time there are many obstacles the employees face while work in various work situations. This paper has the objectives to explore and discuss the workplace learning of employees, challenges of employees in learning and to establish the need of learning organization strategic approach for employee workplace learning and development. The qualitative study adopted the literature survey method for collecting the existing literatures using terms, related to workplace learning, organization learning and employee learning. It adopted the qualitative approach using content analysis summative method to report and discusses the workplace learning and hindrances in employee learning and need of organizational learning approach. The study listed the hindrances of workplace learning like lack of motivation, lack of provision of facilities, resistance to change, no revision of monetary benefits, lack of assessment and feedback, lack of sufficient training and support, lack of career growth and poor work culture fostering negativity, discrimination and inequality. This paper emphasized the organizational learning approach to eliminate the hindrances and obstacles in employee learning since the organization learning covers the learning and improvement across all the functional levels and this approach mainly focuses on individual learning and development.