Many researchers agree that the context plays an important part in shaping the incidental learning.
Previous research distinguished socio-economic context from cultural context (Ellinger & Cseh, 2007). Another aspect
of context is the individual’s workplace. Each job provides different types of training, different norms and mental
models, different opportunities, and different priorities for learning.
Professionals are expected “to perform tasks for which they have not been educated;" therefore, the professional
knowledge involves facing the new demands of professional practice; therefore, “the improvement in professional
performance would be transitory” (Schön, 1983, pp 14-15). Hence, we propose the following hypotheses:
H2: There is a significant positive relationship between incidental workplace learning and job performance.
H2a: There is a significant positive relationship between incidental workplace learning and task performance.
H2b: There is a significant positive relationship between incidental workplace learning and contextual
performance.