Hi,
I am trying to estimate the effect of different types of managerial incentives (autonomy, performance incentives) on organization output, and I know that the level of intrinsic motivation among employees matters for both overall output produced, and can also influence certain practices (more motivated employees might implement more autonomous systems) and how certain practices affect output (ex. performance incentives hypothesized to "crowd out" intrinsically motivated employees. Would intrinsic motivation (assuming it could be measured properly) be included as a control, or would that induce bias by conditioning on a collider?

Thank you.