Edwin A. Fleishman (March 10, 1927 – February 17, 2021) was an American psychologist best known for his work in the field of industrial and organizational psychology.

The Fleishman Job Analysis Survey (F-JAS) that he developed under Management Research Institute has been cited 100 times since 1995.

[2] Starting in 1949, Fleishman worked at the Army Personnel Research Office in the Pentagon for several months where he developed achievement tests for various occupations.

That same year, he started working with a Baltimore brewery on developing a method to evaluate beer preferences, which resulted in his first publication in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

[2] From 1963 to 1975, Fleishman left Yale to work with the American Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR), serving as senior vice-president and director of the Washington office, where he expanded on his research in the area of human performance.

It was at this time in 1974, where he was elected president of the International Association of Applied Psychology, a position he held for 8 years.

In 1976, Fleishman returned to Washington as founding president of Advanced Research Resources Organization (ARRO) to continue his previous work.

Here, he founded the first Center for Behavioral and Cognitive Studies, which was recognized by GMU with an Award of Excellence.