Chevron has no management accountability. They use the term "ITS A DEVELOPMENTAL POSITION" to cover all the screws ups that the person makes and then they promote them. Seen it so many times. Heard on the street that Chevron politics are only second to Washington. It is all about who's ass you kiss at Chevron. Not a good place to work anymore.
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Most DRBs are a rubber stamp as GLK had already decided what projects would get to Excom for sanction. Being a contrarian voice on a DRB is not a career enhancing move.l
We have Decision Review Boards the size of small companies. I've worked other places where the DRB for a multi-million dollar multi-year multi-country project had 3 DRB members, 3, that's it. Here it would have 10 or more. The other companies Decision Package was 2 pages (in Word, not PPT)and focused on Scope (In/Out, there was no frame) and financial benefit (ROI, NPV, etc.). If the project didn't have at least a 10% ROI it wasn't done, except for regulatory requirements or if not doing it will cause death. This was for all projects in all functions.
Committees make all the decisions, so no individual can be fingered
They get promoted so they can go wreck other Business Units.. Its the Chevron Way....
It's a cultural issue. Decision executives are shielded from any an all accountability, while the underlings are burdened with the consequences of the decisions they did not make. The people that are/were removed due to the various thinning processes did not make the decisions that led Chevron to where it is today, yet they are paying the price.
The accountability is there for all to see...its titled RAE, Project Alpha, ROM and other executive job saving excuses.