Nowadays maternal and infant health promotionis part of every country’s development goals. One of the best strategies to achieve this main goal is the quality of labor and delivery cares provided by the hospitals; since the recognition of the present status can help us provide appropriate strategies to improve the quality of the services. Since the midwifery staff, as the health system specialists, play the most important and influential role in quality promotion and thus have their own needs and expectations in the workplace. Meeting the aforementioned needs and expectations calls for applying both knowledge and intelligence in management. The managers’ leadership style can affect the promotion of staff performance and it can also help promote the quality of the care provided for the patients. The present study aimed at finding the relationship between labor and delivery cares with the managers’ leadership style in healthcare centers covered by Alborz University of Medical Sciences in 2016. The present study is a descriptive-correlational one. The statistical population and sample were the midwives working at the delivery units of the hospitals covered b Alborz University of Medical Sciences. Data collection tool was the tool used for surveying the quality of labor and delivery cares as well as multi-factor leadership questionnaire (MLQ). The questionnaire’s validity with its content validity and its reliability with Cronbach’s coefficient alpha was measured 0.85 for the leadership style and 0.87 for labor and delivery cares. The data collected was analyzed using SPSS version 22. According to %49.6 of the midwifery staff, the leadership style of the delivery unit managers was a transformational one. The quality of labor and delivery cares was favorable as being 77.3. The mean of the quality of labor and delivery cares was higher in transformational leadership and a significant relationship was observed between leadership style and the quality of labor and delivery cares (P-Value<0.001).
