CEO Management of an Aluminum Plant Power Outage: How Institutional Change Averted an Existential Crisis at Alba, Bahrain.

1. Using what you learned in class about leadership styles and contrasting cultural values, explain why Alba CEO Tim Murray was able to assume an authoritative approach to dealing with the Alba crisis while a Bahraini executive might not have been as directive and authoritative in dealing with it.

2. (1) What is the Management Style (Polycentric, Regiocentric, Geocentric, Ethnocentric) of Alba? Provide reasons why you think so (3 points). (2) The Bahraini government has a large investment in Alba. Discuss the implications of government having a significant financial investment in one of the world's largest aluminum plants