At Zawa Chemicals in Riyadh, Ashia Has Just Been Promoted

At Zawa Chemicals in Riyadh, Ashia has just been promoted to a team manager role. She is well deserving of the promotion, having demonstrated excellent ability and having produced solid results on her previous projects. She is also popular among her colleagues. However, the three men that she will now be managing have not responded positively to news of her appointment. She faces negative reactions from these subordinates. Assess the individual responses, and try to identify the factor causing the response.
-One of the team members, Rahman, has been at the company for longer than the others and previously liked to assume a senior role, acting as a father figure for the rest of the team. Although he says nothing, he feels that Ashia's promotion is likely to lead to his own informal authority being reduced. His response indicates______________ .

A) that he feels threatened
B) that he is fearful of Ashia's independence
C) that he doesn't like women
D) that he actually has shortcomings in his performance
E) that he is not married