The characteristic that Martin, a marketing manager, demonstrates in that situation is 2) discrimination.
Explanation:
<u>Discrimination</u> refers to the prejudicial or unjust treatment, outlook or action of a different category of people, usually on the grounds of sex or race. This treatment is considered worse than the way in which other category of people would be treated in the same situation.
In this case, Martin is only consulting men in his team, so he is leaving women outside the decision making process. Therefore, Martin is discriminating women in his team.
Actually the correct answer for this question is choice 2.
Because discrimination means: unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
