How about assimilation AND decision making?

I am assuming most people would not decide to be assimilated but instead go about it with not too many other options. This would depend on what type of assimilation is being analyzed; negative or positive assimilation. Going to work for a new corporate company and conforming to new practices, accepting new rules, and adding them to a person's consciousness could be seen as normal, but if the person did it because their was no opportunity at another company he or she was seeking, it could be viewed as negative. Although if this was the dream job, these practices and rules would be welcomed by the individual and they would then be assimilated into another piece of the corporate machine.
The flip side would be the rebel who chooses to go into business for themselves and make their own rules, practices, and procedures so they would not be assimilated into part of the machine.
Assimilation could probably be done better too, in that the manner in which organizations assimilate individuals to their practices.