As with many large corporations, ChevronTexaco is force to operate in diverse functional organization. Global upstream business and global downstream business are separated, Human Resources and Finance are separated, and even in global downstream there are separations in several groups so that diverse markets or products can be effectively handled. In fact, to be completely honest, ChevronTexaco's organizational structure has diagrams that are Conventional, Functional, Centralized, Decentralized, Geographical, and even a Matrix form; but when one has a corporation that has over 60,000 employees in over 180 countries, not just one structure is appropriate.
ChevronTexaco is headquartered in San Ramon, California, with offices throughout the United States and the Providences of Canada. …